Like all good stories this one starts on a bright, sunny, ordinary day. The phone rang and I found our GP was on the other end telling me that my husband?s latest routine blood tests indicated there was ?something going on in his chest?. As a former medic I knew this was doctor-speak, and, a little frustrated by the euphemism, I said, ?Please tell me what you mean,? or words to that effect. What he meant was the possibility of lung cancer.
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