A woman with just 18 months to live blames vaping for giving her lung cancer at the age of 22

Kylie Buda, 22, from Manchester, UK, was a regular heavy vaper when she began coughing up a brown substance containing “grainy bits” in January 2025, SWNS reported.

The retailer said that doctors refused to receive her eight times and told her that she had a chest infection, until she started coughing up blood.

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After seven biopsies, Buda was diagnosed with lung cancer. She underwent surgery to remove the lower lobe of her right lung, in addition to chemotherapy – and in February 2026, she made a complete recovery, the same source reported.

But after two months, The doctors said The cancer has returned to the pleural lining. Now she has been given 18 months to live.

Kylie Buda, 22, is shown at the hospital. She said she began coughing up a brown substance containing “grainy bits” in January 2025. She has been vaping since she was 15 years old. (Sonus)

The young woman has now issued a warning for others to be aware of Dangers of vaping.

Buda said she smoked a little when she was a young teenager. I took up vaping after that.

Then, “a few months after I switched from reusable e-cigarettes to disposable ones, I started coughing up grainy brown mucus,” SWNS reported.

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“Doctors sent me away eight times with a chest infection…and then I started coughing up blood, so They did an x-ray “And I found a shadow on my lungs,” she added.

“They told me they were 99 percent sure, (since I was) very young, that it wasn’t cancer, so I didn’t have to worry about it. When I got the results, and they told me it was lung cancer, it seemed so surreal.”

Buda said she was “very naive” before her diagnosis, and thought “something like this would never happen to me.”

She said she Surgery was performed to remove Half of her right lung.

“After the surgery, I started chemotherapy and I had a terrible reaction to it. I couldn’t hold my head up. I was vomiting blood. I was peeing blood. I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t sleep.”

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She said that when she was completely cured (in February 2026), she was “stunned”, but only two months later, I was told that the cancer had returned and I had 18 months to live.

She added: “I’m 22 years old. This shouldn’t happen to someone my age.”

“Stay away from e-cigarettes because they will catch up with you.”

She said she blames her cancer on vaping.

“My symptoms started a few months after I started Disposable fumesShe said: “There is no lung cancer in my family. I have not smoked e-cigarettes for three months, and I made my partner stop, I made my mother stop, and I am urging all my friends to stop.” “Stay away from e-cigarettes, because they will catch up with you,” she continued.

When doctors took an X-ray, they found a shadow on Buda’s right lung. She was later diagnosed with lung cancer and underwent surgery to remove the lower lobe of her right lung, as well as chemotherapy. (Sonus)

She said she had been using reusable e-cigarettes since she was 15 and started using disposable e-cigarettes a few months before her cancer symptoms developed.

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In November 2024, when she developed a rash all over her body, doctors said it could be shingles, chicken pox or scabies, she told SWNS.

“Nothing worked”

“I received treatment for all three conditions, and nothing worked,” Buda said. “It got to the point where I was cutting myself from scratching so hard.”

After a few months, she began coughing up dark brown mucus, containing “granular bits, similar to the consistency of sugar,” she said. When the cough persisted, she visited the doctor’s office, but was told it could happen Scarring from pneumonia She also said or a chest infection.

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It was not until March 2025 that she started coughing up bright red blood. At that point, doctors performed a chest X-ray and told her they had found a shadow on her lower right lung.

Over the next four months, she performed seven biopsies while doctors took “shadow” samples. In August, when she went to get the results, she was told she had stage 1 lung cancer.

Buddha appears at the hospital. She was diagnosed with lung cancer and underwent surgery to remove the lower lobe of her right lung, in addition to chemotherapy. (Sonus)

In September 2025, she underwent surgery to remove the lower lobe of her right lung and surrounding lymph nodes. During surgery, doctors were able to convert the cancer from stage I to stage III After cancer is discovered She said in six surrounding lymph nodes.

After the surgery, Buda couldn’t breathe properly and had to learn to walk again.

“The oncologist said this is very rare.”

After completing chemotherapy in February 2026, Kylie made a complete recovery, which left her feeling euphoric.

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However, just a month later, she began experiencing severe chest pains and doctors told her she had pleural effusion, a buildup of fluid in the lungs. The fluid was removed from her, but when doctors tested her, they discovered the cancer had returned to the pleural lining of her lungs, giving her 18 months to live.

“The oncologist said this is very rare, and it’s usually something they see Patients aged 80 years“, she said, as reported by SWNS.

Increasingly, holiday hotspots are imposing strict bans on the use of e-cigarettes in public places. (Istock)

Buda claimed doctors couldn’t pin her cancer to a specific cause, but told her that smoking and using e-cigarettes certainly didn’t help.

Since her diagnosis, she has stopped and He urges others to stopalso.

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She said she hopes to raise the thousands of dollars needed for treatment to try to prolong her life.

Last year, Fox News Digital reported Case of Pennsylvania woman, 26 years old, who said she only used e-cigarettes for one year before her lungs collapsed. She said in an interview that she was 22 years old when she started this habit.

“Everyone warned me about it, but I didn’t listen. I wish I had,” she said.

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Signs of collapsed lungs include severe chest or shoulder pain, shortness of breath and difficulty breathing, Dr. David Campbell, clinical director and program director at Recover Together Bend in Oregon, told Fox News Digital at the time.

He warned that lung problems are just one of the many health problems associated with vaping. This habit can also increase Risk of heart disease And stroke, in addition to exposure to harmful heavy metals.

Fox News Digital’s Melissa Ruddy contributed reporting.