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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Antony Thrower & Ruby Davies

Mum-to-be who blamed breathlessness on pregnancy discovers she has cancer at 17 weeks

A gym goer who dismissed her breathlessness on being pregnant was shocked when she was diagnosed with cancer.

Victoria Hemmings-Slack, 30, went to her doctor as she kept being out of breath and later experienced night sweats, itchy skin and a pain in her chest.

She was initially diagnosed with a chest infection but at 17 weeks pregnant was taken to A&E where a chest x-ray revealed a tumour on her chest.

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