The risk of cancer is increased for some women with a strong family history.If two or more of a woman’s first degree ‘blood relatives’ (i.e.Ĭharlotte battled drug dependency and depression in her early thirties and volunteered for treatment at the Priory Clinic in 2003.It was her third stay at the £4,000-a-week rehab centre in Richmond, London, after she developed depression following a temporary split from her long-term partner Alex.She had previously been treated there for cocaine addiction, and her brother Christopher had received similar therapy for drink and drug addictions.

Ovarian cancer is the fifth most common cancer in women in the UK, with the lifetime risk of a woman developing it being about two per cent.Over 80 per cent of women diagnosed with ovarian cancer are over 50, though it can occur in younger women. She is also survived by her brothers Christopher, Sean, Dylan and Paris.Cassandra was 43 when she died of ovarian cancer, which can have genetic causes due to faults in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.Hereditary cancers came to prominence earlier this year when Angelina Jolie announced that she had undergone a double mastectomy after discovering that she had faulty genes which made it much more likely that she would develop breast or ovarian cancer. ShareCharlotte, who was adopted by the actor after he married her mother, leaves behind her husband, artist Alex Smith, and children Isabella, 15, and eight-year-old Lucas.

Pierce Brosnan's daughter Charlotte has died at the age of just 42.The mother-of-two passed away at her London home on Friday after a three-year battle with ovarian cancer - the same disease which killed her mother Cassandra 22 years ago.Mr Brosnan said last night: ‘On June 28 my darling daughter Charlotte Emily passed on to eternal life, having succumbed to ovarian cancer.' She was surrounded by her husband Alex, children Isabella and Lucas and brothers Christopher and Sean.Scroll down for video.

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