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‘He cured the cancer I had’ – film-maker on an Irish surgeon who made a breakthrough that saved his life
Director Éanna Mac Cana on surviving a rare form of the disease and telling the story of the Fermanagh medic who traced its origins in the African tropics Mac Cana was 19, a student studying film-making in Manchester. He had just returned to Belfast for …