The chances of such a coincidence consisted of 20 000 to 1, but it still happened. Husband and wife are both ill with breast cancer, and both were able to defeat the disease.
Briton Paul Cross has long maintained his beloved wife Ann, fight breast cancer Until suddenly I discovered that the disease struck and his body. Paul courageously fought with a tumor, and it was able to win as well as his wife. Doctors call occurred an unprecedented coincidence.
Last year, the 63-year-old Cross was one of only 300 British nationals male, who each year are breast cancer . The most amazing is that 10 years in a row Cross supported his wife Anne in the fight against a terrible disease. 60-year-old woman was able to beat cancer, but this disease suddenly decided to attack her husband.
According to Professor David Walshaw from school mathematics and statistics at the University of Newcastle, the chances that a husband and wife are both sick breast cancer over 10 years make up 20 000 to 1. Yet it happened. Paul found in the soul of a lump in the chest and immediately went to the doctor. Soon the patient was referred to a specialist clinic for treatment breast cancer In which he was the only male patients.
Doctors diagnosed a tumor in the second stage. At this stage, the disease is not yet time to spread throughout the body, so the chances of cure for patients is very high. Surgeons conducted quickly Semi mastectomy. "Of course, for a man, this operation is not as traumatic as a woman - said Paul. - Now, I look a little strange when rented a shirt, but it does not go to any comparison with that through that we had to go to my wife."
At the moment Paul is no longer any evidence of tumor, as well as his wife. The doctors are very optimistic.
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