Millie was born with breathing difficulties and was transferred to our hospital shortly after birth. Our heart specialists discovered she had four heart murmurs that would require surgery. When she was 9 months old, doctors discovered she had polyps in her colon. Millie was diagnosed with Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba syndrome with an underlying PTen deletion — a rare condition that increases the risk of getting tumors. There is no cure for the syndrome and treatment focuses instead on managing sympt
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Millie was born with breathing difficulties and was transferred to our hospital shortly after birth. Our heart specialists discovered she had four heart murmurs that would require surgery. When she was 9 months old, doctors discovered she had polyps in her colon. Millie was diagnosed with Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba syndrome with an underlying PTen deletion — a rare condition that increases the risk of getting tumors. There is no cure for the syndrome and treatment focuses instead on managing sympt
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