'I thought paracetamol would cure me, but my symptoms were incurable cancer'

Just 79 people a year are diagnosed with the same cancer as Roy, 31

A man who thought he had a bad back from working in a pub and take paracetamol for the pain has been diagnosed with a cancer so rare just 79 people a year are told they have it. Roy Mugera thought his pain was down to carrying crates of stock up the stairs and occasionally replacing beer kegs in the cellar at the pub where he worked.

But Roy, 31, from Dagenham, has been told he has an incurable cancer that only 79 people are diagnosed with every year in England. Roy’s back pain began at the end of 2022, and he paid two visits to his GP as the pain was so bad that he could not sleep. Rpoy had also spotted a lump.

He was having to spend nights in his gaming chair, other times on the living room sofa and at other times a