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Sarah Beeny who lost her mother to breast cancer, aged 10 - was diagnosed with the disease 40 years later. Her story features in a new documentary

In August 2022, property expert, presenter and mother Sarah Beeny was diagnosed with breast cancer.Forty years previously, her mother died of the same illness when Beeny was just 10 years old, meaning her diagnosis brought with it complicated questions about developments in breast cancer treatment and how the prognosis has changed in the decades since her mother’s death.

Trials have been launched in a bid to remedy long-running concerns that the system is prone to false alarms and misses cases in some women.