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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Hannah Van De Peer

Three generations of same family diagnosed with deadly brain tumours in one-in-a-billion odds

Claire Cordiner / SWNS

A woman who lost her mother and sister to terminal brain tumours has told how her nephew has been diagnosed with one too - in one-in-a-billion odds.

Claire Cordiner, 54, saw her mother Margaret O’Kane, 66, and sister Angie Jones, 36, died just one year apart - between 2008 and 2009.

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