I'm Giving Cancer the Chop! ; Linda Adley Is Using Techniques Honed in Her Karate Classes to Help Fight Rare Form of the Disease

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When Linda Adley took up karate, she could not have imagined that besides keeping her fit, the martial art would help her find the strength to live.

The retired administrator from Purley, Surrey, was diagnosed with retroperitoneal sarcoma, a rare form of cancer, in May 2001. Although the tumour that had formed behind the peritoneum - a tissue membrane lining the inside of the stomach - was removed, five years later the cancer returned.

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I'm Giving Cancer the Chop! ; Linda Adley Is Using Techniques Honed in Her Karate Classes to Help Fight Rare Form of the Disease

This time, surgery was unsuccessful as the tumour was close to a major artery.

Linda, 52, who is married to software manager Grant, 53, recalls: 'A couple of years after my first operation, my 14-year-old son Jack started karate lessons. It loo...

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