Martin Kemp opens HCA Gamma Knife Centre

The actor and Spandau Ballet singer Martin Kemp has opened the revolutionary Gamma Knife Centre to treat brain tumours. The centre is a £3 million joint venture between HCA, the leading London private hospital group, and the Barts and The London NHS Trust.

Located at world renowned St Bartholomews Hospital in the City of London, the state of the art Gamma Knife radio therapy machine is able to treat brain tumours with greater accuracy than before. More than 85% of the patients are expected to come from the NHS.

Martin Kemp is just about to leave the UK for a sell out tour with his reformed band Spandau Ballet. But as he told the audience after opening the London Gamma Knife centre, he is lucky to be alive.

Fourteen years ago Martin was in North America when he discovered a lump on the back of his head. He flew back home where doctors found he had two tumours, one of which was buried deep in his brain. The prognosis was not good.

Surgeons removed the larger tumour and put a metal plate in his skull but the second was in a position where an operation was going to be highly dangerous, possibly causing irreparable damage to his brain. Then Martin heard that Barts had a radio therapy machine which might be able to help him. He was treated there, the second tumour was destroyed and now he has had the all clear.

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Bless his beautiful heart!