By Anna Hodgekiss PUBLISHED: 05:09 EST, 6 November 2012 | UPDATED: 05:09 EST, 6 November 2012 Jenny Taylor decided to have a preventative mastectomy to significantly reduce her risk of cancer A woman who discovered she had the breast cancer gene has spoken out about why she decided to have both breasts removed. Jenny Taylor's story echoes that of former X Factor judge Sharon Osbourne who has revealed she underwent a double mastectomy after learning she carried the gene. Like Sharon, Mrs Taylor from Orpington, Kent, had the operation because she couldn’t bear to live under the shadow of cancer.
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Jenny Taylor, 46, discovered she carried the faulty gene after her father had been treated for breast cancer
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As her grandmother had also died of the disease, the mother-of-two was invited for screening
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Tests showed she had 85 per cent increased risk of breast cancer
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Double mastectomy reduced her chances of getting breast cancer to just 10 per cent, lower than the average person's risk
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