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A DAD who was given months to live after a shocking cancer diagnosis is focusing on making the most of the time he has left with his young family. Stewart Phimister, 40, was diagnosed with liver cancer after experiencing a "dull pain" in his stomach since last year Glasgow Live reports . He visited his GP and was asked for a scan but was told medics would need to go through their procedures before he returned to his GP earlier his month and pushed again for a scan.

The dad-of-one, from Cardonald, was sadly told the cancer has spread to other major organs and he has three to six months left to left. READ NEXT: 'Waiting on a fatality': Man first raised concerns of 'dangerous' road two years ago His partner Alannah Johnston told Glasgow Live: "It felt like a nightmare and someone had to wake us up. Stewart had been complaining of the pain for months, but because of his age, they had to go through their procedures and couldn't send him for a scan.



"They said it could be six to eight weeks, and he could still be denied it. "He visited out of hours on Saturday and on Monday, he was asked in for an ultrasound. "On Wednesday, they said there were lesions on his liver and a mass behind his pancreas but they wanted to do further investigations.

" She continued: "They explained that it was really bad and said that he had cancer, which was incurable because it had gone to secondary cancer and spread so much. "The only thing they could do was palliative chemotherapy." READ NEXT: 'Disappoin.

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