By MEREDITH NEWMAN
The News Journal of Wilmington 

Delaware researchers examine cancer's effect on siblings

 

January 14, 2018



WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Every now and then, Ali McDonough wakes from a nightmare about her brother.

There's the one where she relives the last moments of Andrew's life. He died in July 2007 in his hospital bed while Ali was holding him.

Or the one where Andrew dies from cancer, but in a different way. Or the one where she has to tell Andrew his leukemia has come back, a moment that never actually happened.

"I'm not over it and I never will be," said Ali, now 27. "If we could have switched spots ... I would have."

She is one of the estimated 5 to 8 percent of people who will experience the deat...



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