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Books > Fiction > True stories > Endurance & survival
In 2013, Mick May was diagnosed with the fatal asbestos-linked
cancer, mesothelioma, whose average medical life expectancy is 10
months. Seven years later he is flourishing, full of joie de vivre,
with a long life-expectancy ahead of him. His case has made medical
history and is giving new hope to a multitude of terminally ill
cancer sufferers around the world. Mick's medical journey makes for
a fascinating read as it weaves from the pain of his many
treatments to the pleasures of his frequent fishing trips to
British and exotic International rivers. Threaded into this are
snapshots of Mick's creation and leadership of a leading offender
rehabilitation charity; his deepening religious faith; his
successful legal action against the merchant bank whose offices
exposed him to asbestos in the 1980s; his chairmanship of a school
ravaged by the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire tragedy, and the happiness
of his family life with his remarkable wife and six children.
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