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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Ben Barry

Woman’s agony as her father and uncle die four days apart after ‘one in a million’ diagnosis

Brain Tumour Research / SWNS

A woman has shared her devastation after losing her father and uncle to the same type of brain tumour just four days apart.

In January 2022 Stacey Pollard, 42, was forced to say goodbye to her father, Geoff Pollard, and her uncle, Pete Pollard, four days apart, after they both died from glioblastoma (GBM). The brothers were told the chance of them both being diagnosed with a GBM was one in a million.

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