Four years ago Tom Cooper, 28, from Burnley, Lancashire, began noticing lumps on his neck. Friends urged him to go to the doctor, who put it down to an infection. But he became increasingly worried about the lumps, and began googling symptoms. He discovered he was actually suffering from Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, a rare form of nasal cancer. Despite numberous rounds of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, the father-of-two has been given the devastating news his condition is terminal. Now, he is being cared for by his wife, Tammy, 26, and his two young daughters Tienna, seven, and Ziani, four. Mrs Cooper said: 'Tom is the most selfless man I know, he's been so brave and courageous throughout his fight and despite the shock, he's still smiling.'

Amy Caddick, 25, from Liverpool, suffered a life-threatening reaction after visiting a salon to get a celebrity-inspired 'dip dye. sported by the likes of Khloe Kardashian and Jessica Alba. She said: 'The pain was agonising. My kids were too scared to even look at me.' Doctors later warned her the severe allergic reaction could have closed her airways completely, eventually suffocating her. She said: 'Never in a million years did I think that treating myself to a new hairdo would turn out this way.'

Kathryn Colas, 64, of East Sussex, had an executive job as a sales and marketing director of a country house hotel in Surrey (she is pictured, left and right). Having climbed the career ladder all her life, she soon began struggling to make decisions and quit her job as she couldn't cope. She realised she was going through the menopause, and was shocked at the severity of her symptoms. She began arguing with her husband of 30 years, and the couple stopped having sex and nearly divorced. Thankfully, cognitive behavioural therapy sessions saved their marriage, and she found a supplement called Promensil which eased her symptoms. Now, she is speaking out so other women don't dismiss their symptoms and seek help instead.

EXCLUSIVE: A MailOnline investigation has tracked down unscrupulous Chinese factories selling deadly DNP diet pills that have killed six Britons and 60 people worldwide. It comes just weeks after 21-year-old Eloise Parry, from Shrewsbury, was 'burned alive' by the drug. Despite being told that we wanted to put the poisonous powder into capsules and use them as slimming pills and import them into the UK, which is illegal, two Chinese drugs factories struck a deal to sell our investigators 30kg of the drug for 840 US dollars.

Louise Robey, 38, from Kent, was diagnosed with lymphangioleiomyomatosis disease, which causes the walls of the cells in the lungs to thicken, restricting the flow of oxygen. She first visited doctors last year after noticing she was left gasping for breath after climbing a flight of stairs. Chest scans revealed the mother-of-two's lungs resembled those of a person who had smoked 40 cigarettes a day for 40 years. But Mrs Robey has never smoked, compelling doctors to look for another cause. In August last year, they found their answer, diagnosing her with LAM disease. Over time the condition worsens and women, like Mrs Robey, are left relying on an oxygen tank. Some patients end up needing a lung transplant, which can extend their lives, but the procedure is not considered a cure. She said: 'It really is scary and terrifying and it is the most frightening thing I have ever faced in my life, without a doubt.'

Issac Michael Hall, pictured with his parents Michelle and Brad, is about five pounds heavier and seven inches longer than the average baby. Michelle told people she was nine months pregnant for the last three months. Issac is the largest baby delivered at West Penn hospital in Ellwood City in at least the last 30 years.

Iowa high school teacher John Cisna made headlines last year when he lost an incredible amount of weight on all McDonald's diet. A year later, McDonald's has confirmed that Cisna is a brand ambassador for the company, giving speaking engagements about his weight loss journey across the country. However, the company specified that Cisna is not a company employee, but he does get paid for his speaking engagements.

Doctors blamed Jemma Jones' dramatic weight loss on an eating disorder. It almost cost her life. After years of pain, tests revealed she had a tumour in her oesophagus. 'Even now, two years after chemotherapy, I still pinch myself that I am here,' she says.

Nigel Smith, 61, from Wolverhampton, died on December 23 last year - three years to the day after tests revealed he was suffering penile cancer. When the then 57-year-old spotted a small red lump on his penis four years ago, he did the responsible thing and went straight to see a doctor. But he was shocked when they told him to go to a sexual health clinic, because his symptoms appeared to suggest he was suffering genital warts. After a second lump appeared Mr Smith (pictured right with his daughter Tammy and granddaughter Saxon) confided in his wife and daughter, who forced him to return to the doctors. A biopsy performed on December 23, 2011 revealed Mr Smith was suffering stage three penile cancer. Three years later to the day, he passed away.

Bethany Wagstaff, five, from Carshalton, Surrey, suffers from photoaggravated eczema which causes a painful and itchy rash, blisters and sores to cover her entire body within moments of being in the sun (left and inset). She takes medication to stop her skin becoming inflamed, and her mother Amy, 26 (pictured right with her daughter) must apply suncream six times a day and bathe her twice daily. Sometimes, when it is hot, she wraps her up in bandages to stop her scratching at her sores, but people in the street shout abuse at her and accuse her of burning her own daughter. Miss Wagstaff said: 'It's disgusting what people say. I don't know why they are so cruel to a little girl. It is heartbreaking seeing Bethany upset and in pain all the time. She's dealing with so much she doesn't need ignorant people pointing and shouting abuse.'

Linda Monk, 47, from Chorley, Lancashire,(centre) drinks a glass of full-bodied red wine each night after her evening meal and has lost 6lb in the past three weeks. Samantha Merrit, 40, from Stoke-on-Trent, (left) admits junk food was her vice before but she credits wine with helping her lose a stone and a half. Joanna Kingston, 51, (right) lives in Manchester and was a self-confessed chocoholic but has swapped chocolate for a small glass of wine. She says that she feels more in control now than she did before.

A woman who ate more than 200 curries a year has ditched the spicy snacks and shed 11 stone. Charlotte Spredbury, 41, from Wallasey, tipped the scales at almost 24 stone (left) when she was at her biggest and was scoffing four curries every week. Charlotte was a size 32 when she collapsed due to a tumour; she vowed to shed the pounds after doctors were unable to operate due to her weight. Now a healthy size 12 (right), Charlotte has also competed in charity runs (inset).

Ilse Fieldsend has revealed her heartache at the tragic loss of her three-year-old daughter Georgia (pictured left, and right moments before her collapse on the beach), who died after suddenly collapsing during a family holiday to Egypt at Christmas time, 2013. She had persuaded her barrister husband James (pictured centre with their son Joshua) to escape the British winter by taking Georgia and her brother Joshua, then two, on a last-minute break to the sun-drenched Egyptian resort. But it was there she experienced every parent's worst nightmare - her daughter suddenly suffered a rare brain aneurysm while at the beach.

Triplet brother George (left, centre) arrived into the world three years in front of his sister Lilah and brother Noah - but they were all conceived at the same time by mother Sarah Swann, of Leicester. The threesome have made her family complete for Miss Swann (right) who didn't start trying for a family until she was 40. She had to turn to IVF to help her in her mammoth battle - and she gave birth to twins Noah and Lila at the age of 45, at the end of January.

Kerry Derham, 31, from Worthing, credits pole dancing with saving her from a pit of depression. Now a personal trainer and pole dancing instructor, Kerry faced a battle with cervical cancer at just 21, followed by financial strife which left her with next to nothing.

NHS worker Justine Sheils, 43, (right) from Maghull, Merseyside, started using sunbeds when she was just 15 and only stopped once she was diagnosed with malignant melanoma in 2006, pictured (left) on holiday in Kos. She narrowly avoided having both breasts removed after she discovered a red mark on her chest which turned out to be skin cancer. A year later her aunt spotted an irregular mark on the top of her head and surgeons were forced to remove part of her skull to get rid of her cancer - leaving her with a six-inch bald patch (inset) and epilepsy.

In a staggering testimony, Lucinda Melcher describes the tragic moment she discovered her husband Adam had an aggressive brain tumour and their time together since the disease was detected. Lucinda (pictured with Adam and their three children Thea, Jonah and Sacha), who is an oncologist, was forced to break the terrible news to her husband after he had come into hospital to confirm there was nothing 'nasty' about his recent headaches. Adam had surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy to remove much of the tumour and while his scans are currently clear, Lucinda says she knows what Adam has is incurable and that the 'only option left is to make the most of every day'. (The couple are pictured together, inset, on their wedding day.)

Incredible video footage has been released of Sydney doctor Andrew Bisits 'flipping' a baby inside a woman's womb from breech position to headfirst to allow her to have a natural birth (right). Christy Rojas (far left), from California in the United States, was living in Sydney with her husband Manu (left) and her oldest son Luca (left, checkered shirt) in 2013 when she discovered that her second baby boy Matisse (left) was in breech position at 28 weeks. Christy was put in contact with Dr Bisits, the director of Obstetrics at the Royal Hospital for Women, who has been labelled the 'baby whisperer' for his amazing work with breech babies.

Abby Wake, from California, says she showed no symptoms of pregnancy, and only found out she was expecting when her Australian boyfriend, Jarryd Gorman, felt the baby kick his hand at a concert. She thought she was just bloated.

Dr Ian Crozier was declared Ebola free after being treated in Emory University Hospital in October 2014. Doctors discovered the virus in his eye two months later, causing vision problems.

Sophie Hartley, 18, from Slough, was diagnosed with bone cancer in her right thigh bone when she was just eight years old, and underwent chemotherapy and a knee replacement (she is pictured, right, during treatment). As she grew, her legs became different lengths as the knee replacement began to cause issues. Her right leg became 3cm shorter than the left, and she had 10 surgeries to correct it, and had to wear surgical shoes. Wanting to wear heels like her friends, she decided to undergo a painful procedure in which a cage is attached to the leg in order to lengthen it (inset). Now, she is finally able to wear heels and spends all her spare money on shoes. She said: 'I love wearing heels - I feel really confident and accomplished, and I think people take you more seriously. Now, people always expect me to be in the highest shoes.'