A 'loveable' dad who had a lingering tickly cough after coming home from a trip to Greece has been told he has just months left to live, the Liverpool Echo reports. Martin Hughes, 37 from Rainhill came back from a holiday in Greece in November 2022 and struggled to get rid of an annoying tickly cough.
Just before Christmas, he told his friend, Richard Maxwell, how he was going to book an appointment with his doctor as the cough had still not gone away. Around one month later Martin's doctors informed him he had throat cancer but said 'not to worry' as most forms of the condition are easily treated.
However after further tests, Martin was diagnosed with a rare cancer of the throat known as small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma which had started in his bowel and spread to the throat. Richard who has been friends with Martin since they were three-years-old told the ECHO: "They have told him it's going to be months he has left to live.
