A man spotted the first signs of a seemingly incurable cancer after he found it hard to go to the toilet on holiday in Edinburgh.
Phil Dobson, 26, was diagnosed with a rare form of prostate cancer after he struggled to urinate while on a trip to the Scottish capital with his girlfriend Holly Nolan in July 2021. But the BT worker, from Blyth, initially chalked the problem up to drinking alcohol until severe bladder pains prompted him to go to A&E when he returned home.
Chronicle Live reports that he was then diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare form of soft tissue cancer that currently has no cure and can only be kept in check with ongoing treatment. For Phil, who was diagnosed at just 24, the news was devastating.
