Neighbours’ Ian Smith says cancer diagnosis left him in cruel and brutal place

Soap legend opens up on brutal rare cancer diagnosis Source: ITV

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00:00They won't know until maybe it happens to them themselves.

00:05It's a cruel, ugly, brutal place that's, and I don't know how,

00:12but it looks like I'm having the best luck in the world

00:16with defeating this cancer.

00:19Although the people, the oncologists, can't tell me that.

00:23They said because this cancer is so rare, so drastic, so severe,

00:30so awful, they are new.

00:33They don't know.

00:35They don't know what it's going to do.

00:38After my last treatment, I said,

00:39how long do I have to keep going with these treatments?

00:42And he said, well, that's up to you.

00:45I said, I thought I was in your hands.

00:47And he said, no, we know so little about this cancer

00:51that we don't know.

00:54If you stop taking the treatments, it may roar back into life.

01:00So I said, well, look, for an hour's treatment every three weeks,

01:05I think I can put up with that.

01:07And it looks like these very clever people are going to keep me alive.