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Woman, 22, Given Months to Live After Starting Vaping at 15
Kayley Boda is raising £20,000 for a clinical trial after doctors said the cancer returned in her lung lining and gave her 18 months to live.
- Manchester resident Kayley Boda, 22, is raising £20,000 for a clinical trial in Germany after doctors confirmed her lung cancer returned in the pleural lining two months after she was declared cancer-free in February 2026.
- Boda, who began vaping at 15, attributes her diagnosis to disposable vapes after developing symptoms shortly after switching; doctors initially diagnosed her with stage one lung cancer in August 2025.
- Before her diagnosis, doctors dismissed her symptoms eight times as a chest infection until she began coughing up blood; her subsequent surgery to remove her right lung lobe forced her to relearn how to walk.
- Now facing an 18-month prognosis, Boda is urging others to "stay off the vapes, because they will catch up with you," while her family launched a GoFundMe to fund the German clinical trial.
- Oncologists noted the rarity of her condition, stating it is "usually something they see in patients that are 80 years old," and while medics could not provide a definitive cause, they confirmed that smoking and vaping "certainly didn't help matters.
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Cancer tied to woman's vaping habit since age 15 as she's now given just months to live
Kayley Boda of Manchester in the U.K., who began vaping at age 15, says she was diagnosed with lung cancer at 21 and given just 18 months to live after her cancer returned.
Woman given weeks to live at 22 says symptoms appeared ‘a few months’ after she started using vapes
A 22-year-old Manchester woman has been told she has just 18 months to live after being diagnosed with stage three lung cancer, a condition her doctors described as typically occurring in patients six decades her senior
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