A Coatbridge man has told of how a routine medical examination revealed a shocking diagnosis.

In 1997, at 42 years-old Bill McGugan had been feeling unusually tired. He didn’t think anything of it, but when he was promoted in his job as an engineer, his employer sent him for a medical that found he had a rare cancer .

Bill's wife Alison said: “Bill was in the garden just a couple of days later playing with our son David. To his surprise, our GP turned up at the house and asked Bill if he could come inside and sit down.

“The GP told Bill he thought he had blood cancer and to come with him immediately to Monklands District Hospital. We were in absolute shock, we thought it must have been a mistake.”

Further testing revealed that Bill had chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML), a rare type o

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