article_snippet: Emma Cunliffe was terrified of contracting breast cancer and so elected for the surgery ahead of Emma Cunliffe 31st birthday - the age at which both A woman who underwent a drastic double mastectomy to reduce her risk of breast cancer mother and grandmother were diagnosed.
article_snippet: Emma Cunliffe, 30, was terrified of contracting breast cancer, after both A woman who underwent a drastic double mastectomy to reduce her risk of breast cancer mother (pictured)  and grandmother were diagnosed in Emma Cunliffe, 30 .
article_snippet: Mrs Cunliffe Mrs Cunliffe had been worried about Mrs Cunliffe risk of cancer all Mrs Cunliffe life, due to the fact Mrs Cunliffe carried the BRCA gene which increases the risk of disease .
highlights_snippet: Emma Cunliffe has BRCA gene which dramatically increases risk of cancer .
  
highlights_snippet: Emma Cunliffe mother and grandmother had both been diagnosed in Her mother and grandmother early 30s .
  
highlights_snippet: As a result, Emma Cunliffe decided to have preventative mastectomy before age 31 .
  