‘I’m just carrying on’: vaccine gives brain cancer patient years of extra life

The revolutionary DCVax-L vaccine has allowed Nigel French to live a normal life seven years after a brain cancer diagnosis

It's been seven years since Nigel French was woken up in the middle of the night by his wife after having a seizure, which came out of the blue after experiencing a mild headache - something he had simply put down to blocked sinuses.

She told me that the ambulance had arrived and I was like: what ambulance?'" recalls French, 53, a mechanic who was diagnosed with glioblastoma that required urgent surgery, without which he would have had only months to live.