A man given six months to live after being diagnosed with terminal cancer is suing the NHS — after his “tumour” turned out to be a harmless abscess, The Sun reports.

Devastated Phil Collins, 61, quit his job, planned his own funeral and blew £18,000 from a pension pay-out when doctors told him he had inoperable gallbladder and liver cancer.

But when the six month deadline passed he went back to hospital — where further checks revealed the growth on his liver was actually an abscess.

Collins told the newspaper that complications from the cocktail of cancer drugs he was prescribed have ruined his health and he is now planning a legal bid for compensation.

“I was a fit man and a keen motorcyclist and I still had a lot of working life left in me,” he said. ”Now I cannot do anything, I’m an absolute wreck. I feel I am just generally shutting down.”

“I am blown up like a balloon. My stomach is so swollen it crushes my legs. I cannot eat, I cannot keep anything down. I feel I am just generally shutting down.”

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