{"id":274112,"date":"2025-11-06T00:57:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/274112\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T00:57:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:57:24","slug":"23-year-old-learns-he-has-stage-4-cancer-after-doctors-misdiagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/274112\/","title":{"rendered":"23-Year-Old Learns He Has Stage 4 Cancer After Doctor’s Misdiagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 23-year-old man from Liverpool, England, learned that he has stage 4 cancer after doctors initially misdiagnosed his symptoms, his family told the Liverpool Echo<\/a> .<\/p>\n

Doctors Misdiagnosed Kyle Kennedy<\/p>\n

Kyle Kennedy began experiencing swelling and pain in his neck, as well as night sweats, back in August. He immediately went to see his doctor, who told Kennedy the symptoms were likely the result of swollen glands. The patient was prescribed paracetamol, a medicine similar to Tylenol which is comprised mostly of acetaminophen.<\/p>\n

But when Kennedy awoke one morning with a severely swollen face, his family knew the issue was not due to swollen glands. \u201cThat weekend he kept saying to me and my mum, \u2018I just don\u2019t feel right, it\u2019s getting worse,’\u201d Kennedy\u2019s sister, Kelsey Thomas, recalled. \u201cHe woke up one morning and his face had blown up, as if he\u2019d had an allergic reaction. I kept asking him if he was sure it wasn\u2019t his hay fever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kennedy still went to work that morning, but the swelling was so severe that his boss sent him home and urged him to seek a second professional opinion. “He sent me a picture of his face a couple of days later and it had swelled up even more,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cAfter another GP visit, he was told to go straight to hospital.”<\/p>\n

He Was Soon Diagnosed with Cancer<\/p>\n

After undergoing an emergency CT scan at Royal Liverpool Hospital, Kennedy was told that he had a large tumor in his chest which had already spread to his tonsils and bowels. Several weeks later, he was officially diagnosed with stage 4 diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, an aggressive form of cancer which occurs in white blood cells.<\/p>\n

Thomas admitted that Kennedy and the rest of her family have been left shocked after his diagnosis. “There\u2019s a 12-year gap between me and Kyle. I was 12 when my mum had him, and I basically helped to bring him up. We’re really close,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s just absolutely devastating\u2026It\u2019s been an emotional rollercoaster for all of us as a family.”<\/p>\n

‘Such a Lovely Lad’<\/p>\n

Thomas continued: “He\u2019s such a lovely lad, quiet and private. He was playing padel every single night until he was diagnosed. Considering he had a mass on his chest, he wasn’t breathless or anything like that. Every night after work he’d either be going to the gym or playing [the racket sport] padel. He was always really fit and healthy.”<\/p>\n

Kennedy is currently on his second round of a six-month chemotherapy regimen. His sister said the experience has depleted him, but he\u2019s determined to see it through. “His first chemo floored him,\u201d she told the outlet. \u201cHe was in bed for a full week with tiredness and sickness. But this time round, he was only in bed for a couple of days. It\u2019s like he\u2019s got this fight in him; he wants to face it head on.\u201d<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Men’s Journal<\/a> on Nov 5, 2025, where it first appeared in the Health & Fitness<\/a> section. Add Men’s Journal as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 23-year-old man from Liverpool, England, learned that he has stage 4 cancer after doctors initially misdiagnosed his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253,146201,146198,146199,146202,36855,146200],"class_list":["post-274112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-kelsey-thomas","tag-kyle-kennedy","tag-liverpool-echo","tag-royal-liverpool-hospital","tag-stage-4-cancer","tag-swollen-glands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}