Linzi was due to start her cancer treatment on Friday
20:38, 06 Mar 2026Updated 20:40, 06 Mar 2026
Story from Jam Press (Dubai Cancer Hell)
Pictured: Lindsay and Paul.
British cancer patient stuck abroad due to missile attacks desperate to get home for treatment
A British woman is terrified her health is deteriorating after being stranded in Dubai with stage three cancer.
Lindsay Stone is due to start chemotherapy for a rare form of lung cancer on Friday.
But flights home have been cancelled after conflict erupted across the Gulf in the wake of the US-Israeli war with Iran.
Lindsay, 47, who has never smoked was only diagnosed with EGFR-positive lung cancer a few weeks ago.
She has had no treatment and has no idea if she will be back in time for her first scheduled session.
Lindsay, from Plymouth, Devon, husband Paul, 54, and daughter Summer, 11, are staying in a hotel on The Palm near Jebel Ali Port which was affected by debris from an intercepted missile.
“I only got diagnosed at the beginning of February,” she told NeedToKnow.
“I’ve not been sick with it at all.
“I haven’t started any treatment yet.
“My doctor said it was OK for us to travel for a short break before starting chemo.
“I was booked in for Friday.
“Obviously we are now stuck in Dubai with no information about how we are getting home or when.
“I am getting chest pains from the stress.
“It’s mostly anxiety thinking the cancer is getting worse without treatment.
“I feel like my health is getting worse.
“For me it is really stressful and if something happens to me or I go downhill, what do we do?”
“I just want to get home and start my chemotherapy.
“And my life actually does depend on it.
“There was a drone intercepted above the hotel on Saturday, which was scary.
“Saturday night was very turbulent but it has been quiet since.
“Some friends of ours moved from the hotel we are in to a different area and they received new alerts on their phones to take cover.
“Thankfully, we have not where we are.”
A Virgin Airways flight was booked for Wednesday, (4 Mar), but Lindsay had no idea if the flight would actually take off.
Speaking on Tuesday she said: “At the moment Virgin says our flight is still going ahead.
“But I’m not sure if it will be going.”
Husband Paul added: “Its frustrating.
“My wife is obviously desperate to get home and start her chemotherapy, and panicking that every day she misses the chemo things are going to get worse.
“So its not a good place to be.
“We havent had a lot of sleep.
“There are a lot of fighter jets going across the skies and drones being shot down.
“That was quite intense, and when you have a young family, they are panicking a bit to say the least.”
Paul said he was doing everything he can to support his wife and 11-year-old daughter.
“Obviously, when you have bombs going off, she does get frightened,” he said.
“For my wife, with everything shes been going through already, this is an issue she doesn’t really need in any way, shape or form.”
ENDS
A woman with stage three cancer has managed to make a vital hospital appointment after she and her family were stranded in Dubai, where they had been on holiday.
Lindsay Stone, 47, from Plymouth, had been due to fly home last Sunday to start chemotherapy but the flight was cancelled amid US-Israeli strikes on Iran and retaliatory Iranian attacks, reports the BBC.
Lindsay, her husband Paul and children witnessed a drone being intercepted above their hotel on Saturday which she said was “terrifying”.
She told the BBC that she felt as if she had secured a “miracle flight” when Virgin Atlantic said she could fly on Wednesday.
Lindsay said the explosion from a missile intercepted above the hotel they were staying in, The Palm near Jebel Ali Port, sounded like a sonic boom.
Story from Jam Press (Dubai Cancer Hell)
Pictured: Lindsay Stone.
British cancer patient stuck abroad due to missile attacks desperate to get home for treatment
A British woman is terrified her health is deteriorating after being stranded in Dubai with stage three cancer.
Lindsay Stone is due to start chemotherapy for a rare form of lung cancer on Friday.
But flights home have been cancelled after conflict erupted across the Gulf in the wake of the US-Israeli war with Iran.
Lindsay, 47, who has never smoked was only diagnosed with EGFR-positive lung cancer a few weeks ago.
She has had no treatment and has no idea if she will be back in time for her first scheduled session.
Lindsay, from Plymouth, Devon, husband Paul, 54, and daughter Summer, 11, are staying in a hotel on The Palm near Jebel Ali Port which was affected by debris from an intercepted missile.
“I only got diagnosed at the beginning of February,” she told NeedToKnow.
“I’ve not been sick with it at all.
“I haven’t started any treatment yet.
“My doctor said it was OK for us to travel for a short break before starting chemo.
“I was booked in for Friday.
“Obviously we are now stuck in Dubai with no information about how we are getting home or when.
“I am getting chest pains from the stress.
“It’s mostly anxiety thinking the cancer is getting worse without treatment.
“I feel like my health is getting worse.
“For me it is really stressful and if something happens to me or I go downhill, what do we do?”
“I just want to get home and start my chemotherapy.
“And my life actually does depend on it.
“There was a drone intercepted above the hotel on Saturday, which was scary.
“Saturday night was very turbulent but it has been quiet since.
“Some friends of ours moved from the hotel we are in to a different area and they received new alerts on their phones to take cover.
“Thankfully, we have not where we are.”
A Virgin Airways flight was booked for Wednesday, (4 Mar), but Lindsay had no idea if the flight would actually take off.
Speaking on Tuesday she said: “At the moment Virgin says our flight is still going ahead.
“But I’m not sure if it will be going.”
Husband Paul added: “Its frustrating.
“My wife is obviously desperate to get home and start her chemotherapy, and panicking that every day she misses the chemo things are going to get worse.
“So its not a good place to be.
“We havent had a lot of sleep.
“There are a lot of fighter jets going across the skies and drones being shot down.
“That was quite intense, and when you have a young family, they are panicking a bit to say the least.”
Paul said he was doing everything he can to support his wife and 11-year-old daughter.
“Obviously, when you have bombs going off, she does get frightened,” he said.
“For my wife, with everything shes been going through already, this is an issue she doesn’t really need in any way, shape or form.”
ENDS
Her husband Paul also told the BBC: “The Saturday especially, it did feel this could get a lot worse and there were a lot of bombs going off. It was quite traumatic from that point of view.”
He said they had decided to consider different ways to get out of the country to make sure Lindsay could start her treatment at Derriford Hospital.
“If that meant we had to go and get a coach and sit in the coach for 13 hours then we would have done it,” he said.
Lindsay said they had not known if it would be “one week, two weeks or three weeks” to get home.
Paul said it had been a “big relief” when the airline offered them passage.
He said the flight took a route down along Saudi Arabia, before “crossing over Israel”.
“I think until we got past there, everyone on the plane was very quiet,” Paul added.
He said the Saturday was the “worst day”, and added “there was a lot of bombs going”.
“We had one of those massive alarms that comes through on the phone, which scares the living daylights out of you,” he said.
“That was like ‘stay away from the windows, stay indoors’.
“We were basically told we weren’t allowed outside the hotel then for the next two days.”
Thousands of British nationals are still stuck in the Middle East after US-Israeli strikes on Iran prompted retaliatory strikes by Iran across the region.
On Thursday the first flight chartered by the UK government to bring back some of those stranded in the Middle East departed.
Mickey Drew was another among those stranded in Dubai, describing the situation as “absolute chaos”.
The 31-year-old from Angarrack, Cornwall, was travelling back from Australia with two friends when flights were suspended.
She has since returned to her home county and reflected on a “really stressful couple of days”.
“I was panicking all the way up to take-off, I would’ve been stranded there by myself because they obviously separated our group into separate flights – it was a nightmare.”
She added: “They hurried us onto the flight, sat us down and moments later we took off. I don’t think I calmed down until we left the UAE airspace.”
Yesterday, Iran launched new retaliatory attacks against neighbouring countries that host US forces. There were no immediate reports of casualties. The latest strikes mark a full week of attacks affecting countries across the Middle East.
The Israeli military said that the fighting has destroyed most of Iran’s air defences and missile launchers, while US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned that strikes against Tehran were “about to surge dramatically.”
Also yesterday, US President Donald Trump appeared to rule out negotiations with Iran to end the conflict, saying in a social media post that there would be no deal except “unconditional surrender” from Tehran.
