A mum-of-two tragically died of incurable stage four cancer just mere months after she was told her back pain was because of a 'trapped nerve'.
Helen Etheridge, 68, first complained of a pain in her back in October 2020 which was put down as nothing more than a trapped nerve.
Helen, who lived in Crosby, said that the pain was because of "old age", Liverpool Echo reports.However, during a trip to visit her sister in Hull in late January 2021, Helen became very unwell with what medics thought was a pulmonary embolism as she was coughing up blood.
Just days later she was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer.Helen's son Alex said that hearing his mum had cancer felt like a "punch to the stomach".
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