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CANCER SURVIVOR TREATED AT CASTLE HILL HOSPITAL, WHO SMOKED FROM THE AGE OF 12, SAYS IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO QUIT

- By SOFIE JACKSON

A WOMAN who has been treated for cancer in her kidney and lung said she is glad to have quit smoking for the sake of her husband and daughter.

Wendy Robinson, 53, is urging anyone who smokes to seek help to stop smoking after undergoing surgery to remove cancer from her lung at Castle Hill Hospital in Cottingham. Her story began in her teenage years, when smoking was heavily advertised.

"At the age of 12, when I started smoking, the tobacco industry glamorised smoking everywhere; Bette Lynch in Coronation Street and all the kids smoking in Grange Hill," she said.

Wendy added: "I feel bad on my family. Because my husband Paul, he has never smoked. And sometimes I think I've done the damage to myself by putting that tobacco in my bloodstream and smoking.

"And I've seen my husband and he's crying when he is looking at me... Surgery don't bother me but thinking of him and my daughter... They're just so glad I stopped smoking. So glad."

Wendy quit her habit of 33 years with the aid of a vape. A scan following recent surgery for kidney cancer - also attributable to smoking - revealed a growth on her lung. Her surgeon said her lungs had been healthy enough for surgery the remove the tumour, a benefit of quitting smoking.