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Article: End run: preimplantation genetic testing and in vitro fertilization let couples minimize the risk of passing along a hereditary disease.(Executive Lifestyles: Health: Fertility)
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- November 1, 2008
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In 1997, Chuck and Dena Oldham were trying to conceive a child, and fertility tests showed no reason they shouldn't keep trying. Both 33, they felt they still had plenty of time.
Then, Chuck Oldham went to his doctor with what he thought was a stomach ulcer, but the diagnosis was much more serious: Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1, a rare disease that affects the endocrine glands and releases excessive levels of hormones into the bloodstream. It ended up producing tumors on Oldham's parathyroid, adrenal glands and pancreas.
Oldham remembers the day a physician gave him the diagnosis and told him the disease was ...
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