article_snippet: We found an adenoma — a type of tumour — in your large intestine.
article_snippet: It was about an inch long, but We managed to remove about an inch.
article_snippet: Though the tumour was benign, the doctor added:
article_snippet: Three years later, a scan found another polyp — smaller, benign, but still, more reason to worry.
article_snippet: ‘the telephone found some cancerous cells,’ my father began.
article_snippet: It was my father prostate, a common cancer in older men (my father was 67) and one with pretty good prospects for survival.
article_snippet: And my father tumour was one of the most aggressive kinds.
article_snippet: my father made a full recovery, but the worries lingered.
article_snippet: Gorgeous, fiercely clever, with a wonderful family and a promising career ahead, My mother died from malignant melanoma — skin cancer — on My mother back in 1999.
article_snippet: My mother was most concerned about the adenoma.