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Always found racing boring but he put an interesting slant on it, I could listen to him talking his pitch quite happily which is some achievement on somebody who’d reach for the off switch usually as soon as the racing started.
Bit of a one off, very marmite in terms of popularity, a horse racing equivalent of Geoff Boycott I’d say.
R.I.P.
He alluded to four of his patients all of whom were non smokers yet all had aggressive lung cancer along with linked cardiovascular issues.
He asked me about my grandparents, both lived until very old age but neither died of nor had cancer despite being smokers since childhood.
He felt (as a cardiologist rather than cancer specialist) that finding out why some were susceptible to cancer yet others were not was the key to finding an eventual cure.
You can be a life long smoker and not die of cancer or indeed a respiratory disease on the other hand you can be a small child who’s never smoked nor been exposed to smoke yet contract lung cancer....
I’m not for a moment implying smoking is fine - it isn’t - and it will increase your risk of getting cancer but it isn’t a given either.
An awful disease which hopefully one day they’ll find a cure for.
Bit of a one off, very marmite in terms of popularity, a horse racing equivalent of Geoff Boycott I’d say.
R.I.P.
Cancer and smoking is indeed horrible (I am a smoker myself) but, I’ll never forget when sat in a cardiac unit after my two heart attacks (which were not smoking related) a cardiologist saying that my smoking wasn’t his primary concern, as he put it “I didn’t seem to be particularly susceptible to it” which astounded me, I pressed him further and he said there’s basically two kinds of people, those who will get lung cancer and those who won’t.
He alluded to four of his patients all of whom were non smokers yet all had aggressive lung cancer along with linked cardiovascular issues.
He asked me about my grandparents, both lived until very old age but neither died of nor had cancer despite being smokers since childhood.
He felt (as a cardiologist rather than cancer specialist) that finding out why some were susceptible to cancer yet others were not was the key to finding an eventual cure.
You can be a life long smoker and not die of cancer or indeed a respiratory disease on the other hand you can be a small child who’s never smoked nor been exposed to smoke yet contract lung cancer....
I’m not for a moment implying smoking is fine - it isn’t - and it will increase your risk of getting cancer but it isn’t a given either.
An awful disease which hopefully one day they’ll find a cure for.