Breast cancer battle: Australian breakthrough offers new hope

By Rania Spooner
Updated June 23 2016 - 3:10pm, first published June 21 2016 - 1:00am
Kylie Gellie, who has had a mastectomy and oophorectomy to avoid breast and ovarian cancer, with her children Jasmine, Korby and Sienna. Photo: Justin McManus
Kylie Gellie, who has had a mastectomy and oophorectomy to avoid breast and ovarian cancer, with her children Jasmine, Korby and Sienna. Photo: Justin McManus

With her mother and grandmother lost to cancer, the only option available to Kylie Gellie was to remove her breasts, fallopian tubes and ovaries.