Sol battling one of UK's rarest forms of cancers

FUND-RAISING RUNS BY PARTNER AFTER 27-YEAR-OLD HAD, DISMISSED GROWTH AS AN OLD INJURY

- By GARY PORTER

A 27-YEAR-OLD man dismissed the persistent lump on his leg as nothing more than an old car accident injury - but it ended up developing into one of the country’s rarest cancers.

Sol Getcheffsky is currently being treated for Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma (ASPS) a condition so uncommon that it affects just six people annually in England.

The cancer has silently spread from his thigh to his brain, lungs, and spleen over the six years he avoided medical attention. Sol ignored family advice to get the lump checked out. But in the summer of 2023, he started having severe headaches which progressively worsened over a couple of months.