Cancer. A word that inspires so much fear. Although not as much today as fifty years ago. Then only one out of four cancer victims survived. Today as many as 60 per cent are cured.  A dramatic improvement that we owe to the dedication of many great men and women.

As February 4th is World Cancer Day we would like to pay tribute to one of these pioneers – Lars Leksell – who in the early 1950s decided to take on one the most feared types of cancer – the brain tumour.

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