Cancer in the family: Researchers search for defective gene in 5-in-1 million case

<!--Saxotech Paragraph Count: 9-->When she was 8 years old, Rachel Ducusin had sore throats all the time, and a swelling on the right side of her neck.When doctors took her tonsils out, they discovered a rare cancer lodged in a mass of nerves near the base of her skull. It was a ganglioneuroblastoma, which strikes about 500 children a year.For Ducusin, now 32, it was the start of a harrowing three years of treatment -- chemotherapy, radiation and bone marrow transplant preparations at

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