Cancer at 35: I started getting an annoying bout of the hiccups when I ate - now I've been given just over a year to live Julian Sillett has been dealt a heartbreaking diagnosis of stage 4 oesophageal cancer and given just 14 months to live at 35-years-old.
The father revealed the symptoms began in June 2024 as minor hiccups while eating and quickly escalated into severe swallowing difficulties.
Initially, doctors dismissed his symptoms as muscle spasms or stress, but Julian persisted when the pain and his difficulty eating worsened.
'I went to see the doctor in July, and he suggested that I might be eating too quickly, feeling stressed, or that it might even be a temporary muscle spasm,' Julian told FEMAIL.
The business analyst and father-of-two from Melbourne, said he first developed a bout of the hiccups while eating in June 2024.
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