A Scots dad who went to the doctors complaining of a sore back has died of cancer just eight weeks after his diagnosis.
Malcolm MacKay, 55, from Cumbernauld, had been feeling tired and suffering from breathlessness but put his symptoms down to his asthma. On June 17, he went to A&E with back pain, and an x-ray later found a 7cm tumour.
He was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and given one year to live. But the rapid growth of the tumour later forced medics to give the dad-of-two just weeks to live.
