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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Angela Ferguson & Kit Roberts

'I thought lump on my neck was swollen gland - the truth turned out to be devastating'

A dad-of-two from Cheshire was left devastated after discovering that he had stage four cancer.

Michael Schillinger, 57, from Nantwich, discovered a lump while he was shaving, and initially thought that it was a swollen gland.

Nonetheless, Michael made an appointment with his GP just to be on the safe side, and was immediately given an urgent referral for tests, scans, and a biopsy after his GP was convinced it was cancer.

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