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Mellissa Dzinzi

Amazing Leeds IT manager beats cancer before being inspired to lose 20kg 'for a body like Chris Evans in Captain America'

A self-conscious man who battled cancer was forced to change his whole wardrobe after a dramatic body transformation inspired by The Avengers.

Marcus Syson was diagnosed with Burkitt's lymphoma - a rare cancer which affects your organs, when he was 22 years old and has not relapsed since.

The 37-year-old from Wakefield, who works as an IT manager in Leeds said the diagnosis was mentally difficult, but promised himself to take better care of his body in the future.

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