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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
Health
Danny Rigg

Dad dies of 'silent killer' after daughter pops to Sainsbury's

A dad-of-two died just six weeks after being diagnosed with the UK's "quickest killing cancer".

Arthur Jones, from Kirkby, wasn't one to "worry" his family if he felt unwell or went to the doctor. But the 73-year-old's daughter, Sheryll, who cared for her aunt when she was dying of pancreatic cancer, was "concerned" by her dad's behaviour. The mum-of-one told the ECHO: "He loved my roast dinners, and he wasn't eating them.

"I was thinking, 'Something's not right for my dad not to eat my roast dinner'. Each time, he'd go, 'Sheryll, I just can't eat big meals anymore'. He was losing weight and needing to go to the toilet more, and me personally, I was concerned.

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