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“I rode the Western Front in my own battle against a life-threatening brain tumour”

“‘Whatever they say in that room, everything is going to be alright,’ I told my wife Kate on the eve of my appointment at St George’s Hospital in London in August 2019. Little did I know that would become my mantra.

In the year leading up to that moment, disorientation and

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