SINGAPORE - When Mr B. Kanesh was 11, doctors found a tumour growing in his nasal region. It was a soft tissue sarcoma, a rare form of cancer that can occur in any part of the body.
He spent the next 1½ years having chemotherapy and radiotherapy while still in school. He had to take some of his Primary School Leaving Examination papers in the hospital.
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