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Aki Hintsa making progress amid cancer battle

Former McLaren doctor Aki Hintsa (pictured above with Lewis Hamilton) says he has made some progress since being diagnosed with cancer mid last year. The well-known 57-year-old Finn, who stepped away from F1 at the end of 2013 to focus on his clinic in Geneva, was diagnosed last July with a malignant abdominal tumour. Hintsa, who has worked with the likes of Kimi Raikkonen, Sebastian Vettel, Lewis Hamilton and many other drivers past and present, has now told the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper that he was given only three months to live. 'Tests have shown that the majority of the tumour has already disappeared,' he said. However, he said he cannot talk of being cured, but rather of having...
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