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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Susan Newton & Tim Hanlon

Man handed terminal diagnosis when rib pain turned out to be tumour now cancer free

A man who "fought" his terminal cancer diagnosis by walking and keeping positive has now been told that his scans are clear with no "visible signs" of the tumours.

Steve Brown, from Preston, thought he had a broken rib from a DIY accident where he was building a fence, in 2020, as the pain didn't go away and he went to hospital where he was told he had cancer.

The 50-year-old underwent scans where medics noticed an anomaly with his kidneys which turned out to cancer which had spread and his outlook wasn't good.

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