WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A protein responsible for repairing damaged DNA may be a vital link to explaining how smoking causes lung cancer, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
A CANCER survivor will be celebrating his recovery when he runs to raise money for research into the disease.
Graham Swan, who is taking part in the BUPA Great Manchester Run on Sunday, was diagnosed with lung cancer just one week after he ran in the 10km event last year.
The father of two said it hit his family like a `bolt out of the blue’ when doctors found a tumour the size of a golf ball in his right lung during an x-ray.
He had an operation to remove it and was out of action for three months.
But Graham says he is lucky it was discovered early and now he wants to spread the message that early detection is `the best cure’.
He hopes to raise at least £500 for Cancer Research UK by running the race.
Engineer Graham, 45, from Dukinfield, said: “When I got ill I set myself a target to run in the race again this year.”
