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The Back of His Mind

Three years ago, 35 year old fashion photographer David Murrell was told he had just months to live.

A tumour the size of an orange was removed from his brain. It was the worst kind of highly aggressive cancer.

But in a lucky coincidence his own father, a cell biologist, emerged as a possible saviour.

Dr Wayne Murrell just happened to be part of a team in Norway working on an experimental vaccine for exactly that kind of tumour.

“I’m a scientist, I don’t believe in coincidence!” Dr Murrell says.

But what happened next defied the odds…