Health
Alice hopes Brisbane test gives cancer patients a chance her father never had – Brisbane Times
Peter Wehl never got to take his grandchildren camping. But researchers hope they can give a fighting chance to others with the same cancer he suffered from.
Then came the sucker punch.
A month later he went for a chest X-ray for his heart, and they discovered the melanoma had spread to his lungs, she said.
Hed had no idea. He hadnt been sick, he was living healthy and he had a bit of a ticker problem, he was 63 and went to get that checked out and found the cancer instead.
Mr Wehl endured several operations over the next 11 months and the cancer spread through his organs and to his brain. He succumbed to it in February 2014.
Three of his seven grandchildren…
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