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Beating breast cancer: New mum was diagnosed at 30
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Ms Dawn Chua was 30 years old and a new mother to her son, Matthias Koh, when she discovered that she had breast cancer.
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SINGAPORE – Ms Dawn Chua was 14 in 2006 when she first heard about breast cancer. Her mother, Mrs Mabel Chua, then 41, had just been diagnosed with Stage 2 of the disease.
“I remember crying because back then, technology wasn’t so advanced and there were a lot of unknowns. We wondered, would she be able to survive this?”
