A teenager who thought he'd 'pulled a muscle' after lifting weights at the gym was told the fist-sized lump on his shoulder was actually cancer. Tomas Evans, 18, discovered the painful lump after working out in June.
He visited the GP and after being referred for various scans, x-rays and a biopsy, was eventually diagnosed with stage two Hodgkin Lymphoma the following month. It's an uncommon cancer that mostly affects people between the ages of 20 and 40 that develops in the lymphatic system - a network of vessels and glands spread throughout the body.
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