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Matthew Cooper

Former New Zealand all-rounder Chris Cairns diagnosed with cancer months after spinal stroke

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.

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