“Of course you will think about it. Is there still life without a stomach?” Inge (51) discovered when she was 48 that she inherited the dangerous stomach cancer gene CDH1. She decides to have her stomach removed before she develops cancer, which is the advice that Belgians with the gene mutation also receive. The procedure changed Inge’s life forever. “If I have to travel now, I don’t eat anything. I don’t want anything to go wrong along the way.”
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Inge (51) inherited a cancer gene from her father: “I didn’t doubt it for a second. That stomach had to go”
