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CoppaFeel! breast cancer charity founder Kris Hallenga dies aged 38

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Kris Hallenga, the founder of breast cancer awareness charity CoppaFeel!, has died aged 38 after 15 years of living with the disease.

In 2009 she was diagnosed with secondary breast at the age of 23, after being turned away from her GP for more than a year. By the

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