News about Rakesh Sharma
How a visit to a GP 'with a hint of cough' resulted in a CANCER diagnosis: 'My lovely elder brother died of blood cancer at the age of 26,' so the mention of it made me ill,' writes ALEX BRUMMER
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August 26, 2023
ALEX BRUMMER: Under most circumstances, the word 'incidental' does not indicate anything of importance. However, I now know better. It seemed benign when my cardiac specialist, Dr Rakesh Sharma of the Royal Brompton Hospital in West London, said a CT scan had 'demonstrated an incidental finding' on my spleen. It may be a benign cyst, not something to be worried about, according to Mr. However, he would forward the findings to a gastroenterologist colleague for further investigation as a precaution. This was a waystation on a journey that began in late March with a seemingly harmless cough that culminated in a cancer ward in June and many months of chemotherapy. I have non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which affects the immune system's cells, and it affects approximately 14,000 Britons each year.