An estates manager at a care home given 12 months to live after being diagnosed with bowel cancer is enjoying time with a grandson he thought he would never see. Richard Condie, 64, was given a bleak prognosis in January 2021 when, six years after his original bowel cancer diagnosis in 2015, specialists told him it was incurable.
But Richard refused to be beaten and six months ago joined a trial for an immunotherapy treatment known as AFM24 at Royal Marsden Hospital in Surrey and feels fighting fit. He even met grandson Josh, two, for the first time in February when his daughter visited from Australia.
Richard, who lives in Burgh Heath, Surrey, with his wife, Judy, 61, a welfare manager, said: “The immunotherapy infusion which I spend three hours having in hospital every week has not only stabilised my cancer but has also shrunk some of my tumours. In January 2021 I was given a year to live, but I’ve beaten those odds and feel like I have second chance at life.”
