Nick was one of the few players with an active father in his life, yet he had watched as his father nearly died a year before and continued to battle colon cancer with chemo treatment every two weeks.

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Mr Wood's death came almost a year after his father Brian died from leukaemia on 21 January.

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Nakashima died a year later, but the Krosnick project gave his daughter the courage to carry on her father's work.

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