Beloved British Boy Cured of Cancer, Doctor Declares
A British boy who holds the world’s record for receiving get-well cards returned for a checkup Thursday and was declared cured of brain cancer once diagnosed as incurable.
“I feel great, fantastic,” Craig Shergold told neurosurgeon Neal Kassell, who removed an egg-sized tumor from the boy’s brain in 1991. He was also treated with radiation.
The 16-year-old from suburban London got into the Guinness Book of Records for getting 33 million get-well cards after he was diagnosed as having an incurable brain tumor. Then billionaire John Kluge, the founder of Metromedia, offered to pay Craig’s expenses for treatment in the United States.
After an exam Thursday, Kassel said: “He’s cured from this tumor.”
Craig’s mother said he still gets five sacks of mail a day from well-wishers.
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