A mum-to-be had to undergo gruelling chemotherapy while four months pregnant after being diagnosed with cancer at 17 weeks. It was New Year's Eve when Victoria Hemmings-Slack was given the shock news.
She had been getting out of breath, something she blamed on being pregnant at first. But soon Victoria began experiencing night sweats, itchy skin and a pain in her chest.
Despite all of this, she battled through to give birth to a healthy boy, Gabriel, in May. Victoria, 30, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, went to A&E at the Royal Stoke University Hospital where a chest x-ray revealed an 18cm butterfly shaped tumour on her chest.
