A non-smoker was left stunned when what he thought was a persistent cough due to a chest infection turned out to be lung cancer. Initially prescribed antibiotics and having undergone surgery for a ...

DAVE Marcus always ignored his pesky cough because he never smoked. So when doctors discovered his chest infection was one of ...

Dave had seen the adverts about how a persistent cough could be a sign of lung cancer. As someone who had never smoked, however, he presumed it didn’t apply to him, but that assumption almost cost him ...

Doctors discovered non-smoker Dave Marcus had a major 7.8cm tumour, and was later diagnosed with lung cancer - seven months after he started coughing and was dismissed with a chest infection ...

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“I was so focused on the fact that I had never smoked that I, unintentionally, ignored the clearest of warning signs – a ...

A man complained of a persistent cough for seven months before he got ... I am proof that it can happen to anyone and catching it early means there's life after lung cancer." ...

ignored the clearest of warning signs – a persistent cough. “But I wasn’t alone in this thinking. It wasn’t until I got that ...

A non-smoker whose persistent cough was dismissed as a chest infection was shocked to discover he actually had lung cancer.

Diane McCallum, 60, was referred for a chest X-ray at New Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow by her GP in April this year after ...