Lynch syndrome is an inherited condition that raises the risk for several cancers, especially colorectal and endometrial, caused by changes in genes like MLH1 or MSH2. I know this because our family health insurance insisted on genetic counseling when my father was diagnosed, a coverage I'm grateful for in this city. But such precise medical knowledge feels like a distant language compared to the village women I work with, whose worries are more about affording any hospital trip at all. My secure policy lets me discuss genes calmly, while their reality is praying the local doctor recognizes the stomach ache in time.
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