On bad days, the pain is so excruciating, he’s bedridden. It’s been his constant companion, like the cane he uses to walk. It cut short his career as an aircraft maintenance officer in the U.S.
Since then, Norris, now 70, has never had a single day free from pain. But Norris was left with a piercing ache that burned from his hip up his spine to his neck. His cancer disappeared and hasn’t come back. More than three decades ago, when Tom Norris was fighting cancer, he underwent radiation therapy on his groin and his left hip.
This story appears in the January 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine.
