Sandy and Mallorie Wilken opted to have their stomachs removed because the risk of the disease was too high.

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Until the mystery is solved, Mallorie Wilken is determined to live her life as normally as possible.

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Glenda Reimer, her sister Sandy Wilken and Wilken's daughter Mallorie have come to the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda,Maryland to help scientists better understand the disease that has devastated their family.

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Judge Wilken also denied the government's request for a further delay, and ordered it to forgo the traditional 30-day waiting period between making a decision and implementing it.

BBC: US ordered to act on polar bear

Early this month, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken of the Northern District of California agreed with the conservation groups, ordering that the Department of the Interior announce a decision by May 15.

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Wilken and Perkol-Finkel are setting the pace.

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