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Ms Aisha Jiffry was looking forward to trying for a third child through IVF when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020. ST PHOTO" GIN TAY

Ms Aisha Jiffry was looking forward to trying for a third child through IVF when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020.

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SINGAPORE – “Mummy, are you going to die? Do you have cancer? Is it contagious?”

Ms Aisha Jiffry’s two children, then aged 10 and eight, peppered her with these questions after overhearing her phone conversations with medical experts and family members in mid-November 2020.

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