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Joe Pagnelli, PA & Ryan Fahey

Woman's backache turned out to be killer cancer - now twin children have it too

A trailblazing grandfather is determined to help find a cure for the cruel condition that took his wife from him and is now wreaking havoc upon his twins.

Life changed forever for Jonathan Williamson, 70, in 1993 when his wife Sue was given six months to live after complaining of backache which was actually caused by a rare tumour of the adrenal glands above her kidneys - known as phaeochromocytoma.

Though the tumours spread fast throughout her body, a decade-long reprieve came in the form of liquid radiation therapy.

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