A dad who suffered with a lingering tickly cough after coming back from holiday in Greece has been given months to live.
Martin Hughes, 37, from Rainford came back from a holiday in Greece in November 2022 and noticed he had a tickly cough. Just before Christmas, the dad told his friend, Richard Maxwell, how he needed to book a doctors appointment as the cough had not gone away.
Around one month later Martin's doctor told him he had throat cancer but said "not to worry" as most forms of the condition are easily treated. But after further tests, doctors diagnosed Martin with a rare cancer of the throat - small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma - after finding it had started in his bowel and spread to the throat.
