EXCLUSIVE: Mum-of-two Laura tells OK! why a deadly cancer gene led her to make the life-changing decision to go into medical menopause when she was just 34 years old
Laura Palmer-Hukins, 36, lives in Pocklington, East Yorkshire with husband David, 37, and daughters Minnie, six, and Etta, four. After discovering in 2019 she carried a high-risk cancer gene, known as Lynch syndrome, she decided to have her womb and ovaries removed.
Known as Lynch syndrome, carriers have as much as an 80% greater chance of developing bowel cancer, often at a young age. It also increases the risk of a number of other cancers, and as a woman, this meant ovarian and womb cancer. ‘My body could betray me’ Now I knew what I potentially faced, I knew I could have regular colonoscopies to detect any changes in my bowel and have screenings for endometrial cancers. But that didn’t feel like enough.
In February 2020, David and I got married, partly inspired by the fact that life could be short and we didn’t want to wait. It was fortunate timing as the pandemic hit shortly afterwards and I knew my chances of having elective surgery were significantly delayed. Even my screenings were postponed. I tried to carry on as normally as possible, throwing myself into fundraising for research into Lynch syndrome.
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