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Family threat

True-life PATIENT CASEBOOK

The news came as an awful shock.

‘Grandad has breast cancer,’ my mum, Jacqui, told me gently in 2013.

Things like this don't happen to men, do they? I thought.

But, of course, they did.

My family learned his illness was caused by the BRCA2 gene mutation.

Doctors explained the BRCA1

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