'I just want to see my little boy grow up' - Assistant to Black Country MP facing ongoing cancer battle as plight aired in Parliament
Kingswinford and South Staffordshire MP Mike Wood has spoken in emotional terms in the House of Commons about a staff member who is hoping to get life saving cancer treatment once and for all in the USA.
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Mr Wood spoke emotionally in the Commons on Friday as he sought to introduc
Senior parliamentary assistant Dan Horrocks has worked for him since he was elected in 2015 and has just completed six weeks of radiotherapy for brain and spine cancer.
He has now beaten cancer four times in just over ten years but fears it might come back yet again.
He credits a free eye test for saving his life when at university in 2011 he was having persistent headaches but medics failed to diagnose what it was until an optician noticed a swelling of an optic nerve and referred him to hospital.
A benign tumour was removed but three years later, the father of one who was born in Wordsley and grew up in Kingswinford was diagnosed with brain cancer, undergoing surgery at Queen Elizabeth II in Birmingham before in 2018 another tumour occurred in a different area.
