A teenager was diagnosed with a rare and often fatal cancer after struggling to breathe.
Just after his 19th birthday, Wavertree teen Tom Street started feeling a "dull ache" in his chest, with an occasional "sharp pain" when the tumour pressed against his ribcage. Scans picked up a cloud in his chest, seeming to confirm the GP's suspicion of pneumonia. But the pain stayed, with painkillers offering only slight reprieve.
Later scans showed the cloud had grown, and a biopsy six months after symptoms started revealed the growth was cancerous. Speaking of his diagnosis with Ewing sarcoma, a type of bone cancer, Tom, now 25, said: "I was really naive, to be honest. I sat in the room with my mum and dad. My mum was in tears and I was like, 'Oh it can't be that bad'. I was under the impression I'd be going to uni in September."
