Bride-To-Be Who Has Never Smoked Is Diagnosed With Incurable Lung Cancer After Going To The Doctors With A Cough

Alisha Barnett, 28, from Borough, south London, was very fit and regularly competed in triathlons (inset) before her diagnosis. She had just completed a 100-mile bike ride when she developed a cough. When it wouldn't go, further tests revealed she had stage 4 lung cancer. She is now undergoing life-prolonging chemotherapy (right) and is set to get married later this month to her partner of four years, 31-year-old Jon Douglas. Pictured left at her hen party, she described herself as 'lucky.' She said: 'I am lucky. It sounds so lame but anyone could die at any time. I don't want to be depressed. People have a lot worse.'