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Scots cancer patient suffers brain injury after rare chemo reaction leaves him ‘like man with dementia’

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The sister of a Lanarkshire man who is battling cancer for the fourth time has told how a rare reaction to chemotherapy has left him with a life-changing brain injury.

Steven Haines was first diagnosed with Stage 3 Hodgkin's Lymphoma in May 2020 before successfully undergoing six months of treatment.

But in December, the 38-year-old began to feel unwell again with medics discovering the disease had returned and worsened - spreading to his spleen, lungs, stomach, sternum and groin.

He was admitted to University Hospital Monklands, Airdrie, to undergo an intensive course of chemotherapy when he suffered the reaction and developed swelling on the brain.

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