A regular gym-goer who thought he'd torn a muscle in his back was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Gareth Emmerson, 28, was diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma - a rare form of cancer - when he was only 21-years-old.
The lifelong Liverpool FC fan, originally from Shropshire, enjoyed keeping fit in the gym and believed his pain was a minor injury.
Gareth said: "I was suffering with a bad back after what I thought was a pulled muscle for about three months. "I was putting a brave young man face on it thinking I'd pulled my back at the gym and that it would sort itself out. "It just kept getting progressively worse until I couldn't take the pain any more." A trip to see his GP because of the pain the doctor agreed and thought it was a pulled muscle
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