Alfie Swain recalls a sombre conversation with his doctor in January. He was told his latest round of cancer treatments had stopped working.

"My doctor's exact words to me were, 'We're in trouble now,'" Swain told CBC News.

Swain, who lives in the Goulds area of St. John's, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma — a type of blood cancer — in August 2020, after discovering a tumour on his spine. 

Since that diagn…