An " active and social" dad-of-two was training for a marathon when he found a lump that turned out to be terminal cancer.
Mark Jones, 45, from Urmston, Greater Manchester, first noticed the raised mass on his stomach around December last year - but thought it could've been a hernia from the half marathon he ran a few weeks earlier.
It was in the week leading up to Christmas, that Mark became alarmed when he started experiencing severe fatigue and random pain in his back and along the side of his body.