Cancer patient from Jersey says gene research has changed her life

Mrs Clarke now has a daughter and she has a 50/50 chance of inheriting the faulty gene from her mother.

Mrs Clarke said: “Hopefully with all the donations to Cancer Research UK she will have a very different experience to us and hopefully medical science has moved on so her experience will be much better even if she has inherited the mutation. ”

Mrs Clarke has praised her daughter for raising awareness about the BRCA genes.

“It’s nice to let other people know that you can do something about it because you can be vigilant and try to prevent it so that 30 years later you can still be here just like me,” she added .