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August 15, 2023 | 10:20 PM
A Brazilian father who lost three children to cancer has died tragically from the same genetic disease.
Regis Feitosa Mota, 53, was born with Li-Fraumeni syndrome, which puts her at increased risk of developing cancerous tumors. jam press report.
The lifetime risk of developing cancer is 70% for men and 90% for women. People with this disorder can have multiple cancers in their lifetime.
Mota was diagnosed with cancer three times between 2016 and 2023. The news of multiple myeloma was in January.
“We discovered another disease,” he said at the time. “We have already treated her for lymphocytic leukemia and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and she is now stable.”
“But we’ve been treating them and they’re not cured,” he continued. “This time, we have found multiple myeloma that even affects the bones.”
Mota said on social media last week that he was in the hospital awaiting a bone marrow transplant.
Unfortunately, he died in Ceara, Brazil on Sunday, which is Father’s Day in South America.
“Our warriors just went to see their children on Father’s Day,” mourned Mota’s younger brother, Rogerio Feitosa Mota. “May God take you, brother! We love you very much.”
“Guys, I never thought I’d make a post like this,” Mota’s wife, Mariela Pompeu, wrote. “I always believed Regis would make a full recovery, so I never prepared myself for this moment.”
“It’s an indescribable pain,” she continued. “The ground has opened up and I don’t know what life would be like without his affection, companionship and absolute love.”
The couple’s youngest child, Beatrice, died of leukemia in 2018 at the age of 10.
His son Pedro died of a brain tumor in 2020 at the age of 22, and daughter Anna Carolina died of a brain tumor in 2022 at the age of 25 after beating leukemia.
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