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Aberystwyth farmer first person in Wales to receive high-tech cancer treatment

75-year-old farmer David Evans has been treated with stereotactic ablative radiotherapy at Swansea's Singleton Hospital after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year

Chris Brayford
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David Evans said: "I had gallstones and a blockage. That is how they found out I had cancer. If they had not, I probably would not be here today."
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David Evans said: "I had gallstones and a blockage. That is how they found out I had cancer. If they had not, I probably would not be here today."

A farmer in Wales has been the first person to receive a pioneering form of radiotherapy to treat pancreatic cancer. David Evans, who lives near Aberystwyth, is the first person in Wales to have undertaken...

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