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“I think the worst thing is He had a cough and he’d got a pain in his shoulder
blade as well. Despite these symptoms, we were told
that my dad wasn’t given it definitely wasn’t cancer. But, after many more trips
the opportunity to fight it.” to the doctors and further tests, they realised they
were wrong.
In stark contrast to Bill, Ian, a family man and ‘typical, But by then it was too late and he deteriorated so
grumpy Yorkshire guy’, died only 12 weeks after he quickly. He died just 12 weeks after finally being
was diagnosed with lung cancer. Given his age and diagnosed.
smoking history, he may have been eligible for the
lung health check, had it been available. Knowing that, potentially, it could have been caught
years ago - because we presume that he had cancer
His daughter, Steph, and wife, Shelagh, bravely joined for years and it’s just been slowly getting worse and
the #LetsRoll campaign a mere few weeks after worse – is heart breaking.
losing Ian to try to spare other families the kind of
anguish they are currently going through: The only thing left to do is to try and get something
positive from losing him, so if our story can help play
Said Steph, “I think the worst thing is that my dad even a small part in making the health checks happen
wasn’t given the opportunity to fight it. - as hard as it’s been to talk about - we had to do it.”
“ By then it was too late
and he deteriorated
so quickly.
“ He died just 12 weeks
after finally being
diagnosed.”
Help us save lives. Sign our #LetsRoll petition today:
www.roycastle.org/LetsRoll INSPIRE 2018
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