Roy's Dream Within Our Grasp ; Ten Years Ago,Roy Castle Was Preparing for His Epic Tour of Hope to Make Liverpool a World Centre for Lung Cancer Research. In the Next Decade, the Disease Could Be Defeated. David Charters Reports

Daily Post › May 26, 2004

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HE WAS the song and dance man with the big-toothed grin, who blew a sweet trumpet into the dawn,as smoke darkened the jazz cellars, where he breathed the poisoned air.

This gradually formed lesions in his lungs and these grew, wickedly,into the lumps that squeezed the brave life from his body.

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Roy's Dream Within Our Grasp ; Ten Years Ago,Roy Castle Was Preparing for His Epic Tour of Hope to Make Liverpool a World Centre for Lung Cancer Research. In the Next Decade, the Disease Could Be Defeated. David Charters Reports

But when they find a cure for lung cancer and people breathe the clean air in celebration, the name of that trumpet-player will be enshrined in our country's medical history.

Professor Ray Donnelly, founder and president of Liverpool's Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation,believes that day will be with us within the next 10 to 15 years.

And it will come as the realisation of a profound ambition between the entertainer, one of Britain's m...

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