Man Whose Family Was Told to Say Goodbye to Him After He Had an Ultra-Rare Cancer Recovers

Man Whose Family Was Told to Say Goodbye to Him After He Had an Ultra-Rare Cancer Recovers
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A young man has made a successful recovery after doctors told his family to say their goodbyes after he was struck down with an ultra-rare “one-in-six-million” cancer.

Sam Parker, 23, of Clitheroe, England, needed to undergo a life-saving treatment after his nausea and headaches turned out to be paraganglioma in his kidney—a rare tumor usually diagnosed in people much older.