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-This tumour is pressing on the spinal cord... interrupting the flow of electricity to your legs. The operation will remove that pressure. I'd, uh, like to do it soon, in the next hours.
- How did I get it? I mean, it's nothing to do with too much sex, is it?
- No, no. Nothing like that.
- We don't know what causes cancer.
- Cancer?
- Cancer?
- You never said anything about cancer.
- That's what the tumour is. It's a can--
- I've got cancer! Oh, God! I'm gonna go bald and have to eat macrobiotic food!
- We're not talking about radiotherapy. This is a discreet tumour. Alone. Isolated. The operation's all we need for the moment.
- For the moment?
- There's a minor risk of damage to the spinal cord.
- What does that mean?
- It means I'm up shit creek, that's what it means.
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