FORMER Ipswich Town player Jimmy King is fighting cancer.King, 40, has been diagnosed as suffering from Hodgkin's lymphoma and this week embarked on a course of treatment that is likely to last a year.

By Mel Henderson

FORMER Ipswich Town player Jimmy King is fighting cancer.

King, 40, has been diagnosed as suffering from Hodgkin's lymphoma and this week embarked on a course of treatment that is likely to last a year.

The disease attacks the body's immune system, but doctors have told him he has a good chance of making a full recovery.

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