I spent a decade begging to be tested for the breast cancer gene that killed my mother. This is why I was denied – and only offered a screening AFTER developing an aggressive tumour. So many women are in the same situation

After her mother’s breast cancer diagnosis at the age of 42, Ellie Sullivan spent more than a decade fearing that one day she too would develop the disease.

‘I always suspected that because my mum developed cancer so young it was caused by a genetic fault – one that I was likely to have inherited,’ says Ellie, who owns a beauty salon in Broadway, near the Cotswolds village where she lives.

‘Desperate’ to discover whether she had a gene that would increase her risk – so that she could have preventative surgery – Ellie, 38, now a mother-of-four, regularly asked her GP

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