Australian Story — Episode 2: The Back of His Mind

You are watching the episode The Back of His Mind Three years ago, 35 year old fashion photographer David Murrell was told he had just months to live.

A tumour the size of an orange was removed from his brain. It was the worst kind of highly aggressive cancer.

But in a lucky coincidence his own father, a cell biologist, emerged as a possible saviour.

Dr Wayne Murrell just happened to be part of a team in Norway working on an experimental vaccine for exactly that kind of tumour.

"I'm a scientist, I don't believe in coincidence!" Dr Murrell says.

But what happened next defied the odds...