Karate cancer

52-year-old woman has become a victim of a rare form of cancer, she decided to give a serious fight his illness. For this purpose, she enrolled in the School of Karate.

When Linda began attending Audley Karate classes She thought and could not imagine that this is the ancient Japanese art of martial arts will help her not only keep fit, but also to fight the deadly disease. A former administrator doctors discovered in 2001 retroperitoneal sarcoma   - A rare form of cancer.

Although the tumor, which was formed in the area of ​​the peritoneum, surgeons removed after five years, the cancer returned. At this time, surgical operation was unsuccessful, since malignancy It approached a major artery.

"A couple of years after the first surgery, my 14 year old son Jack began to walk on Karate classes - Says Linda. - It seemed they were really fun. My consultant said that I would try to work out. When in my life came karate, and I could not imagine what role it will play in the fate soon. "

Linda studied fine, and did not stop training even when the cancer has returned. Before the second operation in January 2007 she received a brown belt. "When I was engaged in karate, he is focused mentally, - says woman. - And inside felt not Linda, who has cancer, but just an apprentice. I had to go through a six-week course of radiation therapy, and now I'm on chemotherapy, which will end in December. Usually after such aggressive treatment you feel weak, but I feel strong because of karate! "

Audley said that during Karate lessons   it turns into another person - a confident and healthy. Even thinking about her illness she can not. Oncologist consultant Professor Robert Thomas of Addenbrukskogo Hospital in Cambridge believes that exercise - a key part of cancer therapy. And evidence of this huge set. That's why Linda with equal passion, and now seeks to win by cancer, and to obtain a black belt.

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