A Liverpool doctor has developed a model to predict death after publishing research that could save people from the guilt of not getting to say goodbye.
Dr Séamus Coyle, 53, believes he's just ten years away from developing a bedside test to predict when lung cancer patients will die. As a consultant in palliative medicine at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, he's called in to deal with symptoms from treatment at an early stage in patients' care.
He originally specialised in oncology - cancer care - before finding he got "profound satisfaction" from sharing his knowledge with patients and their families, and helping with their symptoms. He told the ECHO: "You cannot change what they're going through, but within that, you can make all the difference and make it easier."
