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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Helena Vesty

'I started getting pains down my side - then I was diagnosed with an illness I'd never heard of and was practically out of options'

A dad-of-four was terrified to receive a diagnosis he had never heard of, after multiple specialists struggled to pinpoint where the pains in one side of his body were coming from.

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

Many tests and investigations later, the 54-year-old was told the lump was a secondary tumour, meaning he had cancer that had spread from where it first originated. But medics could not answer where the cancer actually came from.

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