In an unfortunate coincidence incredible, a mother and daughter was diagnosed the same day affected by breast cancer.
With an advanced tumor, chance of Karen Williams and her mother, Diane Leach did not end here, since both underwent surgery on the same day, by the same surgeon and the same hospital.
Event occurred in Great Britain, it was reported Thursday in the newspaper "Daily Mail".
Mother and daughter told the newspaper that in February, as both felt a gland in the chest and after being checked in the same day, discovered that they were affected by a tumor.
By biopsy, so surprising, doctors discovered that their cancer was not caused by the gene known to cause the disease nor inheritance factors, but by incredible coincidence.
Each of the women had the same stage of advancement of the disease and reduce interference head chest, removing the gland surrounding malignant.
Although they continue treatment with chemotherapy, doctors believe that they provide full treatment of women, after tests showed that the tumor had not spread beyond the area removed.
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