Vincent took Violet to Sick Kids hospital in Toronto when her doctors in Edmonton suspected she also had the disease. “He hasn’t seen her since she was one-and-a-half-weeks old.”But just like her mother, Violet, now eight weeks old, is fighting the disease. Fifteen weeks into her pregnancy, Alena Vincent knew her daughter Violet would face the same form of cancer she had as a baby. The RB1 gene, which makes the cancer a likely outcome, started with Vincent’s mother, who also had retinoblastoma. As well, the previous version mistakenly said Alena Vincent’s mother was also treated at Sick Kids.

Source: thestar December 22, 2017 14:04 UTC