A Brazilian father who had lost three children to cancer died from the same inherited condition.
Régis Feitosa Mota, 53, was born with Li-Fraumeni syndrome, which increases the risk of acquiring malignant tumors, according to Jam Press.
Men have a 70% lifetime risk of acquiring cancer, while women have a 90% chance.
People with the condition may develop more than one cancer during their lifespan.
Between 2016 and 2023, Mota was diagnosed with cancer three times.
“We discovered yet another disease,” he said at the time. “We have already treated lymphocytic leukemia and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which are now stabilized.”
“But we have been treating them, they are not cured,” he continued. “This time, we discovered multiple myeloma, which even affects the bones.”
Mota said on social media last week that he was in the hospital awaiting a bone marrow transplant.
However, he, unfortunately, died Sunday in Ceará, Brazil — which is Father’s Day in the South American country.
“Our warrior went to meet his children exactly on Father’s Day,” mourned Mota’s brother, Rogério Feitosa Mota. “May God take you, my brother! We love you so much.”
“My friends, I never imagined making this post,” wrote Mota’s wife, Mariella Pompeu. “I never prepared myself for this moment because I was always convinced Régis would make a full recovery.”
“It’s an indescribable pain,” she continued. “The ground has opened up and I don’t know what life will be like without his affection, companionship, and absolute love.”
The couple’s youngest child, Beatriz, died of leukemia in 2018 at just 10 years old.
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 overcoming leukemia.
