First female athlete diagnosed with the brain disease CTE | 7.30

Adelaide Crows premiership player Heather Anderson has become the first professional female athlete to be diagnosed with the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) after a landmark diagnosis at the Australian Sports Brain Bank. Elias Clure reports.

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