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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Helena Vesty & Tim Hanlon

Dad's pain was deadly illness he'd never heard of - and he was almost out of options

A dad-of-four has told of a "rollercoaster" diagnosis after having pain down the side of his body and eventually finding out he had a cancer "he had never heard of before".

Chris Russell, a construction worker, spent nearly a year seeing specialists to find out what was wrong with him having first gone to his doctor after finding a lump on his shoulder.

Many tests later and the 54-year-old was told the lump was a secondary tumour, meaning he had cancer that had spread from where it first originated.

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