4 hours agoPainful, father desperately challenges the cancer of his two children (Photo)
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)The father who had been through cancer as a child is courageously challenging cancer for his two newborn children. Luke Rollinson, 36, well knows the trauma of childhood cancer, he passed this deadly disease by himself at 18 months of age, but his two children, his son [...]
Luke Rollinson, 36, well knows the trauma of childhood cancer, he passed this deadly disease himself at 18 months' age, but his two children four years old and his two-year-old daughter were diagnosed with retinoblastoma cancer right after she was born, reports “Daly Mail<1>, Periscope broadcast.
We look back now and we think,” Are we gonna get through this? “, Luke said.
How can a woman keep a child for nine months and then be told that the baby needs medicine. She broke my heart”, he added.
Luke lost his right eye to retinoblastoma some 30 years ago, but he was unaware that his son, Eli, would be born with the same genetic mutation that causes cancer.
The doctors then found a small group of tumors and soon removed it with lasers and cryorapy, keeping an eye on the same fate Luke suffered over three decades ago.
We were a little ignorant of the chances of passing the retinoblastoma to our children. We knew there was a chance, but we were not sure whether my cancer was random or genetic “, Luka explained.
When Katie was pregnant with their daughter, Harper, the couple prepared for the worst and underwent prenatial tests to find their little girl as well as carrying the gene.
The released father says he and his family are now in a good “ ” and are in the monitoring phase following early cancer. /Periscopi/
