Marina Wild woke up one night with a ‘stabbing pain’ in her chest while she was on a night away with her husband. As she didn’t want to go to A&E, she put up with the pain until it passed and went back to sleep. The following morning she felt fine but made an appointment to see her GP.
Although she wasn’t too concerned at the time, she is “forever grateful” to her doctor for referring her for an X-ray because despite being young — she was 34 — fit, healthy, and a non-smoker, tests revealed that she had lung cancer.
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