'We both got given these terrifying diagnoses - it made us give up two things'

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Retired school cleaner Ian Gresty once worked as a kitchen porter at the renowned Christie cancer hospital in Withington . Tragically, he found himself a patient there following a diagnosis seven and a half years ago of lung cancer, which had spread to the brain.

Ian was initially given just three months to live. Fellow retiree Ian Cameron used has worked as both a chef and electrician, among other jobs throughout his life.

In 2023, Ian, who is married to Paula, was diagnosed with aggressive stage three prostate cancer. Both of them, facing the unthinkable, knew they needed to change their lives if they were to keep them.

Father-of-five Ian Gresty, from Gorton, was referred to The Christie and offered the opportunity to start on a newly licensed immunotherapy treatment. "I wasn't feeling well but had been working seven days a week, so I thought I was just tired and had a chest infection", says Mr Gresty. "I was given some antibiotics, but when they didn't work, I had a chest X-ray about a month later." "That led to a CT scan and a biopsy of the lymph nodes in my neck, and then I was told I had lung cancer.