BREAST surgeon Mr Charlie Chan has reassured women that 'very few' families carry the cancer gene that prompted actress Angelia Jolie's double mastectomy.
Mr Chan, a general surgeon working mainly with breast surgery cases at Cheltenham General Hospital, spoke after the film star's aunt, her mother's sister Debbie Martin, died of breast cancer – unaware she had a defective gene until she was diagnosed.
But Mr Chan urged women with a history of breast cancer in their family not to panic.
"The number of families in the county who would have a breast cancer gene is probably only about two to three dozen," he said.
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