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Alfie Boe on death of his dad after doctors dismissed brain tumour symptoms as flu

Musical theatre star Alfie Boe is a Brain Tumour Research patron, following his dad's death from a brain tumour age 63.

Musical theatre star Alfie Boe was 23 when his dad (and namesake) Alfred died of a brain tumour. Singer Alfie was 23 when his dad died (Credit: YouTube) Alfred Boe first started having conspicuously bad headaches in his early sixties. A GP dismissed them as symptoms of the flu, and sent him away with some antibiotics, Alfie wrote when he took up the mantle at Brain Tumour Research.

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