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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Eleanor Fleming

Dad’s symptoms dismissed as a virus before incurable cancer diagnosis

Mart in hospital due to a blood clot - (Collect/PA Real Life)

A father whose feet were so numb he felt like he was "walking in flippers" before an incurable blood cancer diagnosis has vowed to defy expectations and live to 100.

Mart Roe, 62, a duty manager for a security team at a shopping centre, had been experiencing agonising back pain for weeks when he started losing the feeling in his feet and lower half of his body in 2020.

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