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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Ben Quinn

‘I’m just carrying on’: vaccine gives brain cancer patient years of extra life

Nigel French with his wife Sue.
Nigel French, pictured with his wife, Sue, was part of a trial of the DCVax-L vaccine to treat deadly brain cancer. Photograph: Supplied

It’s been seven years since Nigel French was woken up in the middle of the night by his wife after having a seizure, which came out of the blue after experiencing a mild headache – something he had simply put down to blocked sinuses.

“She told me that the ambulance had arrived and I was like: ‘what ambulance?’” recalls French, 53, a mechanic who was diagnosed with glioblastoma that required urgent surgery, without which he would have had only months to live.

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