In just a matter of weeks, Mark Jones' life was turned upside down. The dad-of-two was training for a marathon when he found a lump in his stomach back in December.
At first, he thought he may have developed a hernia while running a half marathon just weeks earlier. But doctors later confirmed the lump to be kidney cancer, and told the 'active and sociable' 45-year-old he had just months to live. READ MORE: It was in the weeks leading up to Christmas that Mark, from Urmston, first realised something was wrong.
After noticing the lump, he became increasingly tired and began experiencing pains in his back and the side of his body. "I knew there was something wrong," said Mark, who lives with his wife Sarah and daughters, Sadie, 3, and Poppy, 8. "I thought it was a hernia at first.
I'd been training for a marathon so I'd run a half marathon a few weeks before. "Naturally, you're just thinking for the best.
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