Mark Thornberry
Running the odd mile…to help beat cancerMark Thornberry has been an athlete all his life, and a distance runner for five years.But he was forced to pull out of Grand Union Canal Race, the oldest ultra in Great Britain, after he was diagnosed at age 57 with terminal liver cancer. As he has cirrhosis (liver disease) for 12 years, Mark is regularly scanned. Cancer was detected in the beginning of May 2017. He was devastated when he received a terminal diagnosis at the end of June.Suddenly it was hard to make plans for the future. Mark had to put his sales job on hold, as his daily routine was determined by treatment regimes.“I could sit around and moan about it,...