How Tony's terminal brain cancer saved his wife Samantha's life

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Tony Cook was told he had stage-four brain cancer and three months to live. His diagnosis would lead to another curveball for the family.

The couple worked in the shearing industry and travelled far and wide across the outback to sprawling sheep stations."We jumped on the motorcycle to go for a holiday … then one morning Tony got sick [and started vomiting]," Samantha says.It was terminal, and he was told he had three months to live.

The couple were overjoyed, but Tony says he had lingering moments of anxiety and guilt about not being alive to see his son grow up. The disease is typically associated with women twice Samantha's age and has a survival rate of 49 per cent. While some cancers can be treated through local health services in outback Queensland, the majority of patients need to travel to metro hubs to receive treatment.

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