Army veteran discovers severe 'toothache' is incredibly rare cancer

A newly retired Army chemical officer underwent three root canal operations to cure an extreme toothache only to discover that he had one of the world's rarest .

Lieutenant Colonel Brian Hooks began suffering from what he thought was toothache within months of retiring from the Army after 25 years in June 2022.

He visited a dentist, an endodontist, an ENT and an oral surgeon in a fruitless bid to find the cause of the horrific pain, but it was only in September last year that a biopsy finally diagnosed a SMARCB1 deficient sinonasal carcinoma.

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