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Kathleen Speirs

Exhausted Scots nurse who thought shifts were cause of tiredness diagnosed with rare cancer

A young Scottish nurse who put her exhaustion down to 'being on night shift for a month' was devastated to learn she had a rare form of cancer.

Lucy Summers had been working hard in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary's Ear, Nose and Throat department in February last year when she first began to suffer from extreme fatigue.

The 25-year-old initially put her tiredness down to her unsociable work pattern after also 'shrugging off' a small lump that had appeared in her neck months as a swollen gland.

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