'I Had Mixed Feelings. I Felt Abit Like the Man Who Had Justseen His Mother-in-Law Drive His Brand New Car Over a Cliff'

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A Welsh doctor has written a brutally honest, and sometimes amusing, account of his experience of end-stage cancer. Too advanced to operate, the retired doctor, who has asked not to be named, has undergone hormone treatment and chemotherapy in a bid to halt the cancer, which has spread to his bones. Health Wales today publishes extracts from his moving story, Laugh, I Nearly Died

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'I Had Mixed Feelings. I Felt Abit Like the Man Who Had Justseen His Mother-in-Law Drive His Brand New Car Over a Cliff'

I experienced a feeling of claustrophobia as the machine passed within a few inches of my face. I was undergoing a bone scan, which took about 20 minutes. It was October 2004.

For a month prior to this, my 'bad back' had been playing up - nothing unusual about this, but now I had developed a severe pain down my right thigh needing painkillers.

I contacted my GP, who said he would order some X-rays and blood tests. Two days later he informe...

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