cancer.The millimetre-long animal is being used in groundbreaking research to find treatments for a form of the disease which is referred to as a ‘Phaeo’.Tragically, Jo Williamson, from Dundee, lost his wife, Sue, to the illness in December 2003 after doctors discovered she had a defective gene.Now two of his four children, twins Jennie and James, who will celebrate their 40th birthday in December, have been struck down by the same cancer after inheriting the gene.James, a firefighter in Dundee, has had five tumours removed from near his abdomen and has one large tumour on his carotid artery which is too dangerous to operate on.
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