"SASHA-GAY Wright's father did not know he had cancer. He was very health conscious — he did not smoke, he tried to maintain a balanced diet, and he exercised regularly. In 2012 he checked into the hospital for a respiratory issue and within two weeks he had died.

There was no indication, nothing,” she told All Woman in an office at the Faculty of Medical Sciences at The University of the West Indies (UWI) last week. “They said they did find a lump, and they were going to test it, but that just completely blew my mind. I've chosen to research cancer for that reason.”

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