Hugh Carter was told he had terminal cancer by doctors in 2016
A Stewarton man who has defied the odds to battle on against terminal cancer is mounting a bid to help other sufferers of life-limiting illness.
He told the Kilmarnock Standard: “Latterly in my career, I was working as a music therapist with special needs children and with people with Alzheimer’s. But Hugh was hit even harder by an unintended consequence of the treatment, he says: “I was so ill I couldn’t even hold a guitar.” But his failing health had temporarily halted his passion, he adds: “It hit me hard not being able to play music. Your whole life completely changes. It became apparent that chemotherapy wasn’t for me at all, so they stopped it and just left me for a while, I wasn’t getting treatment but then they decided to do targeted radiotherapy.”
“My oncologist said to me when I was first diagnosed that the chances of me getting five years were only three per cent but the chances with this drug are almost 70 per cent.” “I dabble in a lot of instruments myself, I play guitar, a bit of keyboards, percussion but I have a lot of musician friends and they helped me out.”
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