A father-of-two whose terminal cancer was mistaken for muscular back pain has died just months after he was finally given a diagnosis. Darren Mulqueen passed away aged just 35, just two months after his nagging back pain was diagnosed as terminal cancer of the liver and pancreas.
Darren, a former Army serviceman from Ealing, had been struggling with a bad back for around 18 months before his diagnosis, but was repeatedly told by his GP that the pain was muscular and was recommended paracetamol, MyLondon reports. But his pain got so bad in July this year that he was admitted to hospital.
A CT scan revealed the devastating news that he had spots and a tumour on his pancreas, and his cancer quickly spread to his liver. His cancer was too advanced for chemotherapy and he was given just two to three months to live.
