Overview
- Lawrence Fox, 67, first had diarrhoea, weight loss and food “coming straight out” in July 2024, and an August endoscopy found nothing before a November CT scan revealed a 75mm pancreatic mass.
- He was diagnosed in early December with stage four pancreatic cancer and given a nine‑month prognosis after surgeons ruled out an operation because the tumour sat near a major artery.
- After 12 lengthy rounds of chemotherapy, his tumour shrank to 15mm and doctors no longer class his cancer as stage four.
- With help from a golf pro and Pilgrims Hospices, he has returned to golf and Pilates and hopes to resume swimming, while his son Jamie was set to run the Brighton Marathon to raise funds.
- He is asking people to seek medical advice for ongoing digestive changes, noting that an endoscopy missed his cancer while a later CT scan detected it, and the NHS says fewer than 10% with similar diagnoses reach five‑year survival.