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Ok most of you already know all this but just in case you don’t or even to clarify what might have been passed down the grapevine I’m going to write about it here.

I have a grade three oligodendroma. All tumours are graded one to four. One and two are benign tumours, three and four are malignant and are cancereous. With my symptoms I was lucky to have just a grade three. Grade four and the life expectancy would have been about 6 months. I’m also lucky to have brain tumour as the cancer cannot spread throughout the entire body because of the “blood – brain barrier”. My particular brain tumour is very rare, it usually affects 50 year old men, and the survival rate could be anything from 6 months to 20 years. They really don’t know because it is so rare. At the moment there is no cure. However, research is making great leaps and bounds even whilst you’re reading this! The Christie itself has a brain tumour research department and I’d like to help them along, it might just make all the difference - you never know...
  
How am I? I’m happy. I might still be in shock or denial but I don’t think I am. I can still walk, talk, eat, laugh, skip, sleep, love and paint so as long as I can do all of that I won’t be needing any tissues. And neither should any of you. I read a great book called “Anticancer” by Dr David Servan-Schreiber and I’ve never felt better, I’m exercising, eating well, I’m even doing this half marathon which if you know me well enough you know I would have been the last person on earth to do any such thing!

The Christie is a great hospital and it’s a good cause. One in four of us will probably develop cancer at some point in our lives, it’s worth thinking about. Please support me and the Christie. Thank you.

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