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Who's Tom & Dick

Back in the Fight

Who's Tom & Dick

Patrick Mortimer & Martin Weavers

Anxiety, Cancer, Cardiac Arrest, Comedy Interviews, Hospice, Mental Health, Comedy, Stents, Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Depression, Health & Fitness, Heart Failure, Heart Attack, Breast Cancer

5.0811 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 53 The boys are back on their own today—no guests—just an important update on Martin’s health. Since their last conversation, Martin received some difficult news: his cancer has spread once again, this time to a different area of his lung. His oncologist discussed the possibility of joining a new clinical trial involving a drug similar to Lorlatinib, which Martin had previously taken. Before beginning this potential new treatment, Martin needed to travel into...

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0:00.0

You're listening to Who's Tom and Dick, a weekly podcast with your host, Martin Weavers, fighting states for lung cancer, and Patrick Mortimer, living with heart disease.

0:22.8

Why not grab yourself a cup of coffee?

0:29.0

Sit back and enjoy the chatter as we discuss and share information talking about tough subjects and offering help, support and motivation with a positive mental attitude. Well, good morning,

0:35.0

Patrick. How are you on this lovely day? Good morning to you, Martin. Yes, I'm fine. Thank you very much.

0:41.2

Haven't we? Had some lovely weather? It is lovely weather, isn't it? 30 degrees apparently today, so...

0:46.1

Really?

0:46.9

Factor 50. Make sure you got the factor 50 on.

0:49.5

Oh, yes. I've got a busy day doing work on my computer, so I shall sit in the shade, I think, indoors.

0:57.0

Stay at the sun.

0:58.0

Wait all the winter for some sun and then we stay out of it.

1:01.0

So another week's past.

1:03.0

Yes, we're going to have a catch-up.

1:07.0

This is a sort of time to have a catch-up on your visit to the Royal Marsden. Yeah. To meet the King's Doctor. He is the King's. They are the King's Doctor. But yeah, it was cool. It was a lovely place. I'll tell you what, let's start from the very beginning because you're all tucked away in the depths of, well, you're Suffolk, but Norfolk, really,

1:29.2

aren't you? You're right on the border there. Yeah, I am Suffolk. So you had to probably take the train

1:34.9

from Dis. I did, yeah, I called it a dis. Was it steam? Yeah, I had to help shuffle the coal on.

1:44.0

All right. So you caught the train from Dis. I tell you what, I haven't been on a train for years. And the difference, it was a fast train, and it was clean. It had all the plugs to put your computer in, but not that I had a computer. I can see it's for the people who are on the, you know, the morning thing and all that.

2:01.2

You're not doing Norfolk very, very many favours there, mate.

2:05.6

So it probably was a steam train you were on last thing.

2:10.3

So you got on the train, zipped up to, how long did it take to get from this to London?

2:17.0

It's an hour and a half.

2:18.5

But what we thought we'd do, because we're going to be going up there so often, we thought

2:23.1

we'd try doing some different things.

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