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Iona Young

Edinburgh student was 'numb' after sore throat turned out to be blood cancer

After graduating in the middle of lockdown and looking forward to starting the next chapter of his life, Gonzalo Gil was devastated to discover he had stage four blood cancer after his lymph nodes became inflamed.

The young Edinburgh man told how he saw the concern on the doctors face before he got the life-changing diagnosis which filled him with anxiety.

Following a couple of trips back and forward to his GP, then to an Earth Nose and Throat (ENT) specialist for a biopsy it was finally revealed that Gonzalo had Hodgkin’s lymphoma and needed to start treatment immediately.

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