October 24 2013 - Jared Noel has just one wish before he dies following a five-year battle with cancer: to see his yet-to-be-born daughter. \"My greatest hope is that I get to spend some time with her and enjoy fatherhood. She won't know me. She won't remember me. But I'd like to let her know how much I would have wanted to be there when she's 18, when she's 25,\" he said. Dr Noel, 32, a physician at Auckland City Hospital, was diagnosed with bowel cancer in November 2008. He has since battled through 66 rounds of chemotherapy and two major operations. Despite knowing the cancer would eventually beat him, he and his wife, Hannah, decided to try for a baby in the hope that he would live long enough to experience the first part of his child's life.

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