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IT'S FANTASTIC. DOCS COOKED MY CANCER

WHEN lung cancer victim Kenneth Cook had a heart attack a few months after his tumour was diagnosed, he feared ­nothing more could be done for him as he was too weak to have an operation.

Then the 87-year-old father-of-two was told there was another option: his ­cancer could be “cooked”.

Mr Cook, pictured above, became one of the ­pioneer patients of the microwave tissue ablation system, a technique that could revolutionise ­cancer treatment and save thousands of lives a year.

Doctors at Oxford University Hospitals trust inserted a needle-like applicator into Mr Cook’s lungs through a puncture in his skin. When they ­activated the applicator, it discharged a blast of ­microwave energy that destroyed the cancerous tissues, cooking them in the same way a domestic microwave would.