A dad told his cancer treatment was “on hold” due to coronavirus has had life-saving surgery after his case was highlighted in the Mirror.
Language teacher Dan Gough, 54, was diagnosed with a liver tumour in April and told an operation was his only hope. But doctors at Liverpool’s Aintree University Hospital said they could only monitor him as surgery was unavailable.
It came just days before PM Boris Johnson pledged cancer patients would “get the treatment they need”. The Mirror featured Dan’s plight in May and the next day he and wife Kerrie got a call to arrange a biopsy.
In July, the dad-of-two had a third of his liver cut out at Aintree in a nine-hour operation he says “undoubtedly saved my life” and soon start six months’
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