Actor Loses Half a Lung After Mistaking Rare Cancer for the Flu

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Actor Jarryd Nurden had half of his lung removed due to a rare form of lung cancer he initially thought was the flu

“No words will be able to describe all the low emotions I felt in those four months,” Nurden said

Months after his final surgery, the 34-year-old returned to the stage in an international tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats

Jarryd Nurden made his triumphant return to the stage after losing half of his lung due to a rare form of cancer.

The 34-year-old actor, originally from KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, moved to London in October 2021 to pursue his dreams of performing on the West End — until he suddenly came down with what he initially thought was “a very bad flu.”

As he recently told The Independent , Nurden later found out that he was feeling the sy