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Kelley Price & Elaine Blackburne

'My unborn baby saved my life' - mum-to-be's cancer spotted on scan

A mum-to-be says she's "very lucky" after her unborn baby "saved her life". Megan McQuade and her partner Michael Johnson were preparing to break the exciting news that they were to be parents when their world was turned upside down.

For after she experienced some spotting in the early stages of her pregnancy she was sent for a scan. And it revealed that there was a tumour growing inside her that she had no idea was there.

The 29-year-old from Ingleby Barwick, said she had no symptoms to give her a clue of the disease. And it was only when the sonorgrapher picked up the "mass" on her bladder that the alarm bells rang.

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