A beloved dad and granddad has had his life saved by a miracle tablet that has kept his aggressive prostate cancer at bay for the last 10 years. When Jim Thornhill first discovered he had cancer some 11 years ago, doctors found it was the most severe form of cancer and was no longer curable.
The Sale man has two and four grandsons, and was faced with the possibility of not being able to watch the little ones grow up. Then, Jim got an unexpected offer.
Jim became one of the first patients at the Manchester cancer specialist centre, The Christie, to be recruited to the world’s largest clinical trial for prostate cancer. More than a decade on, Jim is still alive and medics think that the drug he has been receiving could halve the risk of prostate cancer death.
