Letter: George Cohen obituary
29-Dec-2022 17:48:27 | Guardian
In 1988 I wrote a book entitled Living With Cancer, with fellow journalist Jenny Bryan, and we thought it a good idea to include interviews with eminent survivors alongside the material on symptoms, treatments and prognosis.
The World Cup-winning footballer George Cohen, then 47, was the most willing of interviewees. He described living through three bouts of cancer, ten weeks in hospital, six weeks of radiotherapy, losing a large amount of money because he was unable to work, and being fitted with a colostomy bag, which he would live with for the rest of his life.
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