Grandad had devastating signs of silent killer before shock death at 58, 3 years later I got tough diagnosis at only 8

WHEN Abbie Thompson’s grandad gripped his stomach and whispered “I have cancer” to the GP, she was too young to understand. Years later, the 22-year-old is telling Dennis Haighton’s story – a tough seven-and-a-half-month search for answers that ended with a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and a family changed forever. Abbie, from Carrickfergus, Co Antrim,…