However, owner Shasha Khan said a Heritage Lottery Funding (HLF) application form had now been signed and things were "looking positive".

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"Radiation is now as good as surgery, and that wasn't the case 15 years ago, " says Daniel Shasha, a radiation oncologist at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York.

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