A Freeman Hospital doctor is taking on a 500km London to Paris bike ride to help highlight an incurable form of cancer which "can sneak up on people" and help raise money for a charity which he said makes a dramatic difference to patients.
Gosforth -based haematology consultant Prof Graham Jackson is taking part in the gruelling ride in aid of Myeloma UK. The charity supports those diagnosed with the cancer - which affects the bone marrow and blood - and helps to fund research into a cure.
Myeloma is the third most common kind of blood cancer, but symptoms such as back pain, easily broken bones, fatigue and infection are often mistakenly put down to minor conditions or simply ageing. The experienced medic said he had seen first-hand how the charity's support helped his patients at a shocking time.
