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I could drop dead any MINUTE but I won’t live in fear – now I’m taking on Hardest Geezer & doing 52 ultra-marathons

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A MAN battling terminal brain cancer could drop dead any minute – but is taking on the Hardest Geezer instead.

Iain Ward is doing 52 ultra-marathons in what doctors say will be the last year of his life.

Iain was diagnosed with brain cancer in July 2019

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Iain was diagnosed with brain cancer in July 2019
From then on, Iain decided he would dedicate his remaining years to raising the most money ever for charity - through extreme challenges

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From then on, Iain decided he would dedicate his remaining years to raising the most money ever for charity – through extreme challenges
According to doctors, he might have until his 36th birthday in 2025 left to live

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According to doctors, he might have until his 36th birthday in 2025 left to live
Iain's challenge has been compared to the Hardest Geezer's journey through Africa

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Iain’s challenge has been compared to the Hardest Geezer’s journey through Africa

The 35-year-old was diagnosed after volunteering to have an MRI scan as part of a medical trial in 2019.

Doctors found he had incurable stage three brain cancer and only gave him until 2025 to live.

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And in a brave attempt to not let the disease control his life, Iain is now putting his body through extreme challenges to raise money for charity.

Next year he will travel to 52 different countries and walk 52 miles in each one – which should take 52 weeks.

He told The Sun: “I often say cancer was the greatest thing that ever happened in my life and in some ways, it was.

“If someone had said to me ‘Hey I am trying to break a world record for the most money raised for a charity and I’m going to do it this way’ I would have jumped at the opportunity.

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“I would have been like ‘Oh my god that is so cool, I would love to be a part of that’.

“But the difference is that I wouldn’t have had the – not that I wouldn’t have had the urge to myself – but if the idea had popped by in my own mind, I would have thought ‘Eh how are you going to do that?’.

“So, I wouldn’t have had the same amount of confidence.”

Iain’s current challenge is to break the world record for the most money raised for a single marathon, which stands at £2,320,601.

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On Saturday he will run the Berlin Marathon and attempt to smash his target.

He also plans to run another 10 before the end of the year – with seven of them taking place across all seven continents.

Iain’s inspiring journey has been compared to the Hardest Geezer who ran the full length of Africa – which is equivalent to a whopping 386 marathons.

Although he didn’t have terminal cancer, the Hardest Geezer was previously a gambler and an alcoholic.

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Iain has also made his mark on social media, with a following of 6.7million on Instagram and 5.4million on TikTok.

Brain cancer

ACCORDING to the NHS, brain tumours are graded on how fast they grow and how likely they are to grow back after treatment.

Grade 1 and 2 tumours are low grade, and grade 3 and 4 tumours are high grade.

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There are 2 main types of brain tumours:

  • Non-cancerous (benign) brain tumours – these are low grade (grade 1 or 2), which means they grow slowly and are less likely to return after treatment
  • Cancerous (malignant) brain tumours – these are high grade (grade 3 or 4) and either start in the brain (primary tumours) or spread into the brain from elsewhere (secondary tumours); they’re more likely to grow back after treatment

The Cancer Research UK website has more information about specific types of brain tumours.

The symptoms of a brain tumour vary depending on the exact part of the brain affected.

Common symptoms include:

  • Headaches
  • Seizures (fits)
  • Persistently feeling sick (nausea), being sick (vomiting) and drowsiness
  • Mental or behavioural changes, such as memory problems or changes in personality
  • Progressive weakness or paralysis on one side of the body
  • Vision or speech problems

Sometimes you may not have any symptoms to begin with, or they may develop very slowly over time.

The self-dubbed King of Chemo said the challenges help keep him positive while he currently has no symptoms.

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He added: “One of the reasons I’ve managed to stay so happy and perky about the situation is because I don’t have symptoms when it comes to my brain cancer. Yet.”

Iain’s adventure at the start of next year will also be an attempt to raise the most money ever for a charity walk.

Sadly, he isn’t the only member of his family suffering with the disease, as his mum battles breast cancer.

To support her, Iain also wants to break the record for the fastest single marathon completed in a five-person costume.

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He hopes to pull together various male social media influencers and dress up as the spice girls.

Iain explained: “I think it sends a good message that, as much as there is so much division between the little things that make us different.

“I think its a nice reminder to show that we are all on the same team.”

You can follow Iain’s journey here.

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The Hardest Geezer

RUSS Cook was once a gambler and an alcoholic who transformed himself into ‘The Hardest Geezer’

Originally, Russ planned to run from Tunisia to South Africa in the space of 240 days, the equivalent of running 360 marathons.

However, Russ experienced some unexpected issues with the Algerian visa and had to put the challenge on hold.

On April 22, 20023, he decided to set off on foot from South Africa’s southernmost point.

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On April 7, 2024. Russ crossed the finish line in Tunisia after 352 days.

He ran a total of 386 marathons, that is, 10, 000 miles with an average of 28.7 miles a day.

Russ is nicknamed the Hardest Geezer thanks to the incredible challenges he has taken on.

Prior to his Project Africa challenge, Russ was best known for becoming the first person to run from Asia to London in 2019.

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He also completed 71 marathons in 66 days as travelled from Istanbul, Turkey, to Worthing, passing through a total of 11 countries.

Amazingly, Russ has also completed a marathon on crutches, ran a marathon while drinking a beer after each mile and was buried alive for a week.

While attempting to run across the entire length of Africa, Russ revealed he was kidnapped.

Speaking in August 2023, he said: “Gonna be honest the last few days have probably been some of the toughest of my life. On day 102 I was separated from the boys & the support van after some impassable roads in the planned route.

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“In an attempt to find the boys at a village on the plan B route, I stumbled into a rural settlement where the chief told me I must give him money.

“I had none. So that went down well. Pretty soon I found myself surrounded by lots of game blokes with machetes. Was escorted out the village into the bush.

“Emptied my bag to show I had nothing but a half eaten biscuit. Gave it to them, and ran.

“Spent the next few hours bushwhacking through overgrown jungle paths. Trying to stay off any tracks until I was far away.”

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But things then went from bad to worse after he realised the support van couldn’t reach the road before two men suddenly “pulled up on a bike.”

He added: “What happened next was a seven-hour motorbike ride deeper into the jungle. In my head I thought this was it. Me.

“The self-proclaimed hardest geezer. About to get held in a Congo gulag before being ripped apart limb by limb and eaten.”

Russell explained that he was later pulled into a hut after being driven to a village.

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He said a group of men began to argue about what they should do with him.

The runner said he attempted to negotiate and get through to his team who organised a rescue, and took him to safety.

A few months before revealing he had been kidnapped, Russ had said in June 2023, how he was robbed at gunpoint

He said he was targeted by an armed gang in Angola, during his 9000-mile journey.

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The King of Chemo wants to dedicate the rest of his life to raising money for cancer research

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The King of Chemo wants to dedicate the rest of his life to raising money for cancer research
He is aiming to  break the record for most money raised for charity by running a marathon

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Woman, 18, died after six doctors ‘failed to spot her tumours’ on seven occasions & insisted she was ‘under the weather’

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A WOMAN, 18, died after six doctors ‘failed to spot her tumours’ seven times and turned her away insisted she was ‘under the weather’.

Ruby Fuller was a happy-go-lucky 17-year-old who was full of life before she noticed some worrying symptoms.

Ruby Fuller passed away aged 18 after six doctors failed to spot her cancer on seven occasions

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Ruby Fuller passed away aged 18 after six doctors failed to spot her cancer on seven occasionsCredit: PA

The teenager suffered with increasing shoulder pain, fatigue and a swollen face for weeks – but after going back and forth for three months GPs told her family she was just “under the weather”.

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Her shoulder pain was blamed on a heavy schoolbag and eyelid puffiness was put down to allergies – for which she was given antihistamines and steroids.

Blood tests were done, but they did not reveal anything alarming.

Her mum Emma Jones was so concerned she even asked a doctor “could it be cancer“.

But they were astonishingly laughed away and told “not in a 17-year-old, she’s far too young”.

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The same dismissive response was delivered by six different doctors on seven occasions.

However, determined to find answers, Ruby and her mum kept making appointments.

Emma said: “I was getting more and more worried. I googled Ruby’s symptoms and read about lung cancer cases where a tumour pressing on a vein in the chest can cause swelling. So we went back to the GP.

“When the doctor laughed and said it couldn’t be cancer, it should have been a relief. But her symptoms carried on getting worse.”

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On their eighth GP visit, a doctor finally questioned why Ruby, who had not booked an appointment for eight years, had suddenly visited eight times in three months.

He examined her thoroughly and detected a raised lymph node, and was concerned with unexplained bruising on Ruby’s abdomen.

The teen was referred for specialist testing and in July the young girl was diagnosed with stage-three acute lymphoblastic T-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

She had a three-and-a-half-inch tumour in her chest.

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It had gone undetected for so long, it could have prevented her from breathing at any moment.

In a photograph taken just before Ruby was given her devastating diagnosis, the raised lymph node was visible on her neck.

Mum Emma said: “We now know this is a key symptom of lymphoma. And the unexplained bruising should also have been a red flag for blood cancer. Why weren’t these things picked up?”

The brave teenager then battled through chemotherapy and a stem-cell transplant.

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Her prognosis was looking hopeful and Ruby was discharged in March 2020.

But after six weeks, she relapsed and the cancer returned as an terminal form of leukaemia.

She passed away just three weeks later and her last days were spent surrounded by family at home, with their cats.

Her heartbreaking final words came as she spoke of a family holiday and “the best chocolate brownies” she’d ever tasted.

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Ruby died in May 2020, aged 18.

Now Ruby’s parents are tirelessly campaigning to raise awareness of symptoms and speed up diagnosis time.

Emma, 54, said: “It took eight GP visits before Ruby was diagnosed. She hadn’t been to the GP for years – but as she kept getting more unwell, she kept going back to the surgery again and again.

“But she wasn’t taken seriously. She was dismissed – made to feel that she was being an over-anxious teenager and I was being an over-anxious mother.

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“We will never know whether Ruby could have been saved if she had been diagnosed earlier.”

The heartbroken mother said it is “absolutely critical” that GPs take “parents’ concerns seriously”.

Ruby was passionate about protecting the environment and wanted to be remembered by the motto Live Kindly, Live Loudly.

Her family have used this as the name of a fundraiser to help support the Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG) in her memory.

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Jeanette Hawkins, the charity’s chief nurse, added: “The speed of diagnosis for children and young people in the UK is not as good as it could be. Ruby’s case is a stark example – but sadly not unusual.

“We frequently hear from families who had to take a child to their GP more than five times with the same set of symptoms before they were diagnosed.

“What is needed is far better awareness of the symptoms of childhood cancer among both the public and healthcare professionals, including GPs.”

She added: “An individual GP may only see one child with cancer in their practice every five to ten years.

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“So even when a child presents with cancer symptoms, they may not think it’s likely to be the disease.”

Ruby’s parents are campaigning to see Jess’s Law pass into legislation.

Jess’s Law would require GPs to mark a case as needing urgent review if they visit a surgery three times for the same thing.

The law is named after Jess Brady who died in December 2020 after her cancer was missed 20 times by four GPs, over six months.

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The 27-year-old aerospace engineer, from Hertfordshire, had been suffering abdominal pain, coughing and vomiting.

She was only diagnosed with advanced adenocarcinoma after she visited a private doctor and died three weeks later.

An NHS spokesman said: “NHS England extends its deepest sympathies to the family of Ruby Fuller, and is working hard to ensure every child with cancer receives a prompt diagnosis and high-quality care.”

Leukemia symptoms and signs

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Source; bloodcancer.org.uk

Leukemia symptoms commonly include:

  • fatigue (tiredness that lasts a long time and doesn’t improve with rest)
  • bruising and bleeding more easily, or bleeding that takes longer to stop
  • infections that are more frequent, severe, or last longer
  • fever (high temperature)
  • weight loss that is unexplained
  • swollen lymph nodes (glands in your neck, armpit and groin)
  • breathlessness
  • feeling generally unwell.

Infections

Infections that are more frequent, severe, or last longer, are a common symptom of leukemia. If you have leukemia, even if it’s not been diagnosed, an infection can be very serious or even life-threatening. Find out more about symptoms of an infection to watch out for.

If you think you have an infection, you should tell your GP, and tell them if you’ve been having more frequent infections, or any other symptoms.

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Anaemia

Leukemia can cause anaemia. Anaemia means having a low level of red blood cells in your blood. Symptoms of anaemia are:

  • tiredness
  • breathlessness
  • dizziness or feeling faint
  • chest pain
  • pale skin.

Bleeding problems

Leukemia can affect your platelets (cells that help your blood to clot). If your platelets aren’t working properly, you may have:

  • red or purple spots or rashes on your skin (petechiae or purpura) caused by bleeding under the skin
  • blood in your poo
  • black, tarry poo, or poo that is streaked with red (because of bleeding in your gut)
  • in women, heavy periods
  • difficulty with speaking or moving parts of the body, if there is bleeding into the brain.

Increased sweating

You may have:

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  • increased sweating, particularly at night
  • drenching night sweats.

Enlarged spleen or liver

Leukemia cells can build up in your spleen or liver, causing swelling or an enlarged spleen. Symptoms of this would include:

  • bloating, swelling, general discomfort and sometimes pain around the stomach area or under your ribs on the left
  • feeling full after only eating small amounts.

Bone pain

Leukemia cells can build up in the bone marrow (the soft, spongy material inside some of our bones). This can cause:

  • bone pain
  • in children, limping or avoiding walking due to bone pain.

Blood clots

Leukemia can sometimes cause blood clots to develop. Symptoms of a blood clot are:

  • a painful or swollen leg due to blood clots in the leg or tummy area
  • chest pain and difficulty breathing due to blood clots in the lungs
  • headache, being sick (vomiting) or problems with vision due to blood clots in the brain.

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