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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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