A HEARTBROKEN woman has urged people to take chest infections seriously after her sister died from lung cancer.
Mum-of-seven Kelly Chick had repeatedly gone to the doctors with chest infections and a cough, her sister Amanda Rutter said.
In February 2020, Kelly, who had been just 37 at the time, was diagnosed with lung cancer.
Around 47,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with lung cancer every year in the UK.
In the first stages of the illness there are usually no symptoms and these only usually become visible in the later stages.
Last month experts at Cancer Research UK said that urgent action is needed and that people with symptoms of lung cancer should come forward.
The charity said that since the pandemic, the number of people seeing specialists for the cancer is 10 per cent lower than expected.
Now Amanda is urging people to come forward and get checked out if they have symptoms after her beloved sister died from the illness on February 7.
Kelly, who lived in Evesham, West Midlands with her family, leaves behind her seven children, Ashley aged 21, Liam aged 19, Megan 17, Lauran, 13, Leah 11, Tyler aged 10 and seven-year-old Lily.
Amanda said the whole family has been left devastated and that Kelly’s children are heartbroken.
She said that Kelly had ‘lived for her children’ and had wanted to give them the best life possible.
Amanda is now urging young people in particular to ask for a lung scan if they get repeated chest infections.
