Dad who thought he had pulled muscle playing golf diagnosed with incurable cancer

Dad-of-three Lee Young thought he had pulled a muscle while playing golf. But as he rubbed heat cream into his side one day, he discovered a lump that hadn't been there before.

Medics told him not to be alarmed, that the lump was only 'gristle'. After being sent for some investigative tests however, Lee found that at just 55-years-old, he was being diagnosed with a rare, incurable form of cancer.

A scan revealed an 8.5cm-long tumour near his kidneys - the location made it inoperable. The tumour was also found to be a secondary cancer with doctors being unable to discover the root cause of Lee's disease, called cancer of the unknown primary (CUP), making it all the harder to treat.

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Lee, a garage owner from Denton, said he went to Tameside Hospital and received the devastating news that he would be 'sent to The Christie Hospital to be made comfortable' in October, last year.

"My world collapsed around me," he told the Manchester Evening News . "Being told you have cancer is one thing, but being told they can't do anything is another thing entirely. I couldn't get my head around it, if you're going to get a cancer, this isn't a great one to get."

But Lee says that when he got to The Christie specialist cancer hospital in January, his outlook changed and he discovered it to be an 'unbelievable hospital'. The sheer positivity of staff and patients turned his mood around, then Lee was offered a place on a clinical trial to test out a new form of treatment.

"I was scared to death and quite nervous, but the nurses at The Christie made me feel so welcome. In March, a clinical trial became available and it's quite rare to be able to get