By Donna Hussey-Whyte—-  Medical practitioner Dr Alfred Dawes has confirmed the worst fear of a young woman featured in last week’s edition of the Sunday Observer — that she has cancer. Shakera Facey, 19, has a large tumour growing on her arm, and her story resulted in hundreds of responses offering support to her in her plight. Dr Dawes, who is also president of the Jamaica Medical Doctors Association (JMDA) reached out to Facey after reading about her condition, which also detailed the family’s uncertainty following a diagnosis at the Kingston Public (KPH) which showed the teen’s condition to be cancer while examinations by private doctors showed inflammation. He said that the biopsy and follow-up examinations showed that Facey has a rare type of cancer of the bone called an osteosarcoma. Osteosarcoma is a … Read entire article »