Paul Hazelwood was told there was nothing else doctors could do to treat his rare terminal cancer.
Three and a half years later he is still living with stage 4 small bowel cancer, a fact he puts down to a medical trial and a cancer drug called Keytruda.
"I owe it everything," Mr Hazelwood, 44, said.
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