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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Rikki Loftus

Man given one year to live after incurable cancer diagnosis defies the odds on revolutionary trial

A care home manager with incurable bowel cancer has not only cheated death after being given 12 months to live, but is now best pals with the grandson he thought he would never meet — and is even joining a 15-mile fundraising trek next month.

Richard Condie, 64, was given a bleak prognosis in January 2021 when, six years after his original bowel cancer diagnosis in 2015, his specialists at the South London site of the Royal Marsden Hospital in Sutton told him it was now progressive, meaning it was incurable.

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