A first-time mum has revealed how she endured gruelling chemotherapy treatment whilst she was four months pregnant. Victoria Hemmings-Slack, gave birth to a healthy baby boy, Gabriel, in May.
However, just 17 weeks into her pregnancy the 30-year-old was diagnosed with cancer on New Year’s Eve. She presumed her regularly becoming breathless was down to being pregnant, but she then started to experience night sweats, itchy skin and a pain in her chest.
Victoria booked an appointment for an x-ray in hospital where doctors discovered an 18cm butterfly shaped tumour on her chest. Doctors then found a lump in her neck and Victoria, from Newcastle, was diagnosed with stage two Hodgkin lymphoma.
