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By Susan Newton A dad who was told he had a higher chance of winning the lottery than being diagnosed with a rare cancer is now living with the incurable disease. Lee Penrose, 45, from Lancashire, was only 31 when he was told he had Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL), a slow-growing cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow, usually found in older people. He initially thought he was just generally unwell before he received the diagnosis. He said: “It’s not uncommon, but it’s usually restricted to people later in life. For me to get it at my age when I was 31, apparently there was more cha…

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