*Joanne's partner died in 2020 following his lung cancer diagnosis. *George started with a cough in November 2018, which lasted for two weeks. Doctors gave him antibiotics on two occasions, but they were unsuccessful. After spending all of Christmas feeling too ill to leave his bed, he returned to the doctors in the new year and was sent for scans. They showed a shadow on his lungs and further tests at the hospital led to a diagnosis of small cell lung cancer. It was at stage three lung cancer.
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