'Look at my face... you'll never guess what I've been through unless you look closely'
manchestereveningnews.co.uk‘My only symptom was a watery eye… eventually I found out that I had a tumour as big as an egg… it was the alien, I felt invaded’.
Graeme Heward was just shy of his 50th birthday in 2011 when he received unbearable news. As a physiotherapist himself, he had always eaten well, exercised regularly, and was ‘totally shocked’ to learn of his diagnosis of extremely rare nasal and sinus cancer. “I was just very unlucky.
My cancer was one in 100,000, which if you put it into perspective, is just one person in the entirety of Wembley stadium. That would just look like a speck, and I was the speck,” he said.
From that tragic moment, Graeme underwent around 50 surgeries, as well as two rounds of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The toll was colossal, with the delicate location of the tumour meaning that his face had to be rebuilt almost entirely.
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