Otec Chad Dunbar (45), who never smoked in life, learned a shocking message just a few days after he drove thousands of kilometers on a bike in the mountains. The doctors unexpectedly diagnosed him with lung cancer at the terminal stage. ., ‘ Interestingly, only one symptom showed up on his leg.
Found him lung cancer
Father of two children from Utah’s American He was the leader of the largest youth cycling team in the United States. In 2022, with him discovered a strange symptom, namely swelling and pain in the calf on the leg. But since he often sports, he assumed he just overloaded the muscle.
“A nurse came to me and told me they suspected lung cancer. I thought it wasn’t possible. Every season I am on a mountain bike he has driven 3000 kilometers and my lungs were probably the healthiest part of my body“said Chad. Cancer has spread to his brain, liver, bone and lymph nodes near the heart. This means that it is currently in the terminal stage and is incurable.
The man was shockingly diagnosed with lung cancer. (illustration photo)
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Experts say that Lung cancer is one of the most common forms of this disease in the world. Conventional symptoms include persistent cough, coughing of blood, shortness of breath and excessive fatigue. About 70 % of lung cancer cases are caused by smoking.
However, Chad’s cancer arose for a completely different reason. It turned out to be expanded as a result of a mutation of retai, which is a change in a gene that helps cells to grow. In this case, his cells were wrong and uncontrollably grew. Lung cancer caused by this mutation may also spread to other parts of the body, including the feet. That can lead to pain, weakness or even fractures that make it difficult to walk or stand.
In March 2024 Chad indicated that him Doctors give a five percent chance of survival over 5 years. Despite the poor prognosis, however, the father of two children is optimistic and believes that he will be able to defeat cancer. “I thought, ‘Hey, do you know what? five percent, that’s my chance of recovery‘, “he said.
