By the retail assistant’s own admission, she’d rattled through a single 600-puff device every week since her teenage years, gradually moving from reusable vapes to single-use.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t until she began coughing up an unusual brown substance, littered with ‘grainy bits’, however, that she suspected her health was faltering.<\/p>\n
During as many as eight GP appointments early last year, the now 22-year-old claims she was repeatedly turned away. She recalls doctors and nurses misdiagnosing her with chest infections and pneumonia.<\/p>\n
That was, until one day, Boda began coughing up blood.<\/p>\n
Seven biopsies and multiple scans later, medics discovered a dark shadow on her lung.<\/p>\n
The Manchester local was subsequently diagnosed with lung cancer.<\/p>\n
It was also then that she realised a rash she’d suddenly experienced in the months prior, which she’d previously put down to shingles, chicken pox, or scabies, was also an indicator of poor health.<\/p>\n
“A few months after I switched from reusable vapes to disposable ones, I started coughing up brown, grainy mucus,” she recently told the press. “Doctors turned me away eight times with a chest infection.<\/p>\n
“Then I started coughing up blood, so they did an X-ray and found a shadow on my lung.”<\/p>\n
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Boda was initially given the all-clear (SWNS)<\/p>\n
After undergoing surgery in 2026 to remove a considerable portion of her right lung, and chemotherapy to eradicate the disease, she was initially informed she had the all-clear.<\/p>\n
Just two months later, however, the cancer had re-emerged in her pleural lining.<\/p>\n
“Before the diagnosis, I was very naive and thought that something like this would never happen to me,” Boda confessed. “I had surgery to remove half of my right lung, and after the surgery, I started chemo, and I had a terrible reaction to it.<\/p>\n
I couldn’t lift my head up, I was throwing up blood, I was urinating blood. I couldn\u2019t eat. I couldn’t sleep. I lost 4kg in four days.”<\/p>\n
After doctors ruled there was no further treatment she could receive in the UK that would alleviate the condition, Boda was told she had less than two years left to live.<\/p>\n
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Boda switched from reusable vapes to single-use (Matthew Horwood\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
“When I got the all-clear, it felt amazing, but just two months later I was told the cancer had come back, and I have 18 months to live,” Boda explained. “No words can describe how I feel. I\u2019m 22, this isn\u2019t meant to happen to somebody my age.”<\/p>\n
She added: “The oncologist said this is so rare, and usually something they see in patients that are 80 years old.”<\/p>\n
Her only hope is clinical trials in Germany, which she’s currently raising money to pay for.<\/p>\n