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Lucy Farrell & Sian Traynor

Scottish dad spent a month alone in hospital after 'sore throat' was aggressive cancer

A Scottish dad was forced to spend a month isolated in an Edinburgh hospital after this 'sore throat' turned out to be cancer.

Graham Stirling's life turned upside down after what he believed was a something he caught while gardening was really an aggressive form of Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Only 60 years old at the time, in May 2020 the dad-of-two woke in the night with the uncomfortable throat, which he put down to inhaling an anti-fungal spray he used on his fence earlier.

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