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LBBC x Primark: Discover Your Breast Gene Fashion Show

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Join Living Beyond Breast Cancer and Primark for an evening of education and fashion featuring members of LBBC’s community who are either a carrier of the BRCA1 gene and/or another gene or have hereditary cancer in their family.

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Light refreshments will be served.

All donations support LBBC's programming and resources for people diagnosed with breast cancer.

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