'My mum ignored a persistent cough... a year later she was dead'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA public health chief who lost her mum to a devastating condition just two months after she was diagnosed has shared what she wants every family to know about the illness.
Rebecca Fletcher, who is the Public Health Director for Oldham, lost her mum Lesley Fletcher to lung cancer. Rebecca, who was brought up in Sandbach in Cheshire, recalls her mum always smoking from her being a youngster in the 1970s.
In 2009, Mum-of-two Lesley was struggling with depression and mental health issues and hadn’t paid attention to a persistent cough.
But in October of that year, Lesley was diagnosed with lung cancer. The disease was already so advanced that she was unable to start treatment. READ MORE: Top 10 daft parking jobs at the Trafford Centre amid last-minute Christmas shopping madness READ MORE: 'I'll be working over Christmas to pay off my £30k gambling debt...
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