{"id":263123,"date":"2022-02-21T18:43:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T00:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=263123"},"modified":"2022-02-21T20:01:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T02:01:41","slug":"cancer-screening-woman-siblings-sold-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/cancer-screening-woman-siblings-sold-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer screening leads woman to discover she and multiple siblings were sold at birth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A breast cancer screening led a Canadian woman to the astounding <\/span>discovery<\/span><\/a> that she and seven of her siblings were sold at birth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reissa Spier, 67, from Surrey, Vancouver, always knew she was adopted. What she didn\u2019t know was that she had seven other siblings. That all changed after her breast cancer diagnosis at 51 years old when she began looking into a screening to determine if she was a carrier of the BRCA genes. As a mother, she wanted to find out if she could pass the genes down to her daughter, putting her at a much higher risk of developing breast cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n

But in order to conduct the screening, Spier needed to prove she had a first-degree relative with the mutation and, because she was adopted, she didn\u2019t know any of her relatives. Consequently, she was denied the screening, according the <\/span>Washington Post<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Years, later, however, she received a DNA test for her 62nd birthday and learned she did not carry the BRCA genes. The test also brought to light the long held secret that she had seven siblings and half-siblings \u2014 and that she and several of her siblings were sold by their biological parents.<\/span><\/p>\n