Robert Goodwin can vividly recall the day he was wheeled out of surgery at Dunedin hospital and given six months to live. Read: [ Ссылка ] | Subscribe: [ Ссылка ]
It was 1972, and Goodwin had just been flown from Gisborne to Napier to Dunedin for surgery and an MRI after experiencing vision loss and intermittent migraines.
At just 17-years-old, he was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour.
Goodwin refused to accept the life expectancy, and underwent 31 days of cobalt therapy – a treatment method using gamma rays from the radioactive isotope cobalt-60.
Although successful, his doctor warned him the tumour was malignant and could grow again.
Fifty years later, it never has.
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