Cancer drug success offers ‘second shot’ at life

Frank Dowling was told he told he would be dead by last Christmas due to the pervasiveness of his cancer. But in a clinical trial his cancer was reduced by 90% and he is due to start a college course, writes Noel Baker.

TWO different days this week give a good insight into two very different avenues in Frank Dowling’s life at the moment — a life he thought would be extinguished just a year ago.

On Wednesday the 63-year-old graphic designer enjoyed an induction day at University College Cork, where he is shortly to begin a four-year architecture course. According to his wife, Gail, he had a swim in the morning and was due to paint a wall in the garden.