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More people with HIV are
coming down with cancers. Martin Flynn talks to Nick
Thomas who has terminal HIV-related lung
cancer
Forty-three-year-old Nick Thomas is facing death with a brave and proud
face. Diagnosed over 10 years ago with HIV, he thought he was going to
die then. But the advent of combination therapy five years ago gave him
renewed hope and a new lease of life.
However, this summer he was told he had terminal and inoperable lung cancer,
the chemotherapy wasn't working and he was going to die.
Brought up in a small village in Gloucestershire, Nick studied
Nick in healthier days
catering in Cheltenham and worked in local hotels for three years. After
that he moved to London where he spent six years as a catering manager
at a City insurance firm. Then he had a complete change of career and
worked as a travel consultant for Thomas Cook.
"I was diagnosed with HIV about 10 years ago," he explains:
"I was quite ill with
genital herpes, really bad thrush in my mouth and all my glands were swollen.
