To this day, Sivarasa cannot shout, something which, according to him, his wife, local theatre personality Anne James, is “quite happy” about. When he was first diagnosed with medullary thyroid cancer during a medical check-up in 2000, Sivarasa was in the full swing of his career as both lawyer and politician. “It was quite bizarre – I had no symptoms whatsoever but my cancer markers were very high,” Sivarasa recalls of the cancer. “Thyroid cancer is generally quite treatable but mine was quite rare and a bit complicated,” he says, adding that the only treatment option was surgery. Imagine being a lawyer and a politician and you have no voice,” says Sivarasa.

Source: thestar December 30, 2018 00:33 UTC