By Katie Westwood & Ewan Gleadow A chance chat at her mum’s funeral led Gail Hardy to make a life-changing choice to have her ovaries removed. Gail, 47, from Melling, had a talk with her cousin at the funeral who told her that an aunt on her dad’s side of the family had tested positive for the BRCA2 gene. It raises the risk of breast and ovarian cancer in women and breast and prostate cancer in men. Gail, a mum of two, decided to get tested herself – and found out she too had the BRCA2 gene. Despite knowing it would put her into menopause straight away, Gail chose to have her ovaries taken out…