WHEN Will Wise started to feel hot and sweaty on the Tube on the way to work one morning, he assumed it was just the stress of the commute."One in two people will get cancer, but I was oblivious to it before going through this," Will said., and now lives in West London, said: "I had no symptoms at all. Being a former professional basketball player, I was pretty fit.
"I was throwing up and throwing up, and it was this colour that was green, but I hadn't eaten anything green so my mind was blown," he said."All my organs were failing," Will, who is 6ft 9in and wears size 15 shoes, said. " had never seen anything like it.Will, who most recently played for the Eastern Mavericks in Australia, was put on a ventilator to keep him alive while medics raced to figure out what was wrong.
"It was a shock and scary, but just because I got diagnosed with stage four cancer, I just don't stop being Will.""For us, this isn’t about fighting cancer or even surviving it – it’s about living with it," she said.But, once they got over the initial shock, they were able to look beyond it and see there was so much more life to be enjoyed."But even with words like ‘cancer’ and ‘stage four,’ you realise you just have to keep moving.
This type of cancer is rare. About a quarter of cases are caused by an inherited faulty gene which runs in the family.The most common symptom is a mass or lump in the neck, which may be painful. But people can also experience difficulty swallowing, problems breathing, a hoarse voice, pressure or discomfort in the neck, a red face, diarrhoea and weight loss.