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Helena Vesty & Lewis Moynihan

Nurse who went to GP for sporadic back pain told he has terminal lung cancer

An intensive care nurse was left 'broken' following a terminal cancer diagnosis after visiting his doctors for 'sporadic' back pain. Raad Islam, 34, suffered pain for two years that eventually left him unable to walk while working on the frontline of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The young NHS worker was left shocked when test results showed he had terminal lung cancer. A year on from his diagnosis, he hopes to raise awareness about symptoms of the killer disease by sharing his own story.

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