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The earlier you start, the better your chances of preventing cancer
I started the cancer awareness journey early on. Not because the disease struck me — but because both my parents died from cancer.
My dad passed away when I was 22, in his early sixties.
The cancer was so advanced that doctors could not tell us the place of origin.
Dad was a smoker and drinker, so I assumed it was amassed in his lungs first. However, dad was very strong; it wasn’t until cancer travelled into his brain that it caused seizures. Then, Seizures uncovered the horrible truth.
It was a six-month journey -and eventually, his body stopped functioning.
Nineteen years later, my mum, at 83, passed away from pancreatic cancer.
Mum had diabetes and had a terrible diet before her diagnosis. Cancer took us by surprise, and she had no chance to try chemo because her kidneys had deteriorated from the constant high blood pressure she had suffered for years.
Now I know that was a byproduct of pancreatic cancer.