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Article: I'LL BEAT OUR FAMILY"S KILLER; Why, at 22, this woman wants to undergo a double mastectomy to thwart the breast cancer that claimed five of her relatives.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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Byline: ANGELA EPSTEIN
AT just 22, Becky Measures is taking a drastic but courageous decision - one she hopes will save her life.
She is planning to undergo a double mastectomy to protect her from the breast cancer that has stricken four generations of her family and killed five relatives.
After taking a blood test, the local radio presenter discovered she carries a defective gene which gives her an 85 per cent risk of developing the disease.
In choosing surgery, she is following her mother, Wendy Watson, who had a pre-emptive double mastectomy at the age of 38 - one of the first women in Britain to have opted for such a preventive ...