I am the youngest of 7 siblings, none of them have ever had cancer and neither have any of their 16 children. I feel pretty certain I am a de novo. My father did pass away in February of Leukemia, so we can't test him (but he was 83 at the time)....
Cancer runs in my husbands family. He has lost 2 young daughters to cancer and he himself has a rare cancer now too. So when our son Joshua was 1 year old and started walking, we were concerned because of a curvature in his right leg. After seeing se...