Former New Zealand all-rounder Chris Cairns has been diagnosed with bowel cancer, just five months after he suffered a spinal stroke.
Cairns underwent emergency life-saving heart surgery back in August for a torn artery, but suffered from complications which led to a spinal stroke.
The stroke left the 51-year-old paralysed from the waist down and he was only discharged from the University of Canberra Hospital last week after 141 days of inpatient treatment.