A hardy pensioner who has beaten cancer eight times now has so much radiation in his body that he sets off supermarket alarms. Geoffrey Jones, 80, was first diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1971 when he was 26.
He has since survived prostate cancer, lymphoma, a tumour on the spine and four bouts of skin cancer. But all the radiotherapy he has received over the decades means the security guards at his local Sainsbury’s now turn the alarm off when he comes in to stop him triggering it.