One of the UK's leading radiotherapy experts, Professor Adrian Crellin, has been diagnosed with incurable cancer and described the experience of becoming a patient himself as "bizarrely reassuring".
Professor Crellin, 70, noticed blood in his urine and immediately went to his GP, who referred him to Bexley Wing at St James Hospital in Leeds, a facility he was instrumental in launching back in 2008.
The esteemed professor, who was honoured with a CBE for his contributions to radiotherapy in 2019, serves as a consultant clinical oncologist at the University of Leeds and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
He also holds a prominent position within NHS England and has previously worked with Cancer Research UK. He said the diagnosis was a "devastating shock".