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Zoe Conway: Sarcoma awareness month, part 2

2022/7/13
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"Chris had been somewhere between a father and a brother to people in Downing Street. He wasn't just principal private secretary."

 

Today on The G Word, Vivienne Parry, our Head of Public Engagement at Genomics England is joined by BBC journalist Zoe Conway whose husband, Chris Martin, died of a rare form of sarcoma in 2015. 

 

They discuss the story of Chris Martin and his sarcoma journey. They talk about how difficult it is to diagnose sarcoma and its subtypes. They also discuss how it affected him whilst being David Cameron's Principal Private Secretary.