A “strong, loving” 24-year-old mother has died after the ovarian cancer she was told had a ten percent chance of returning came back and became terminal. India Skinner, from Newport, died on Saturday, July 9, at the Grange Hospital in Cwmbran surrounded by her husband Jason and her family.
Speaking to WalesOnline last summer, India explained how she first started feeling pains in her left leg and pelvis while pregnant with her eldest daughter Harper. She said despite never having a CT or MRI scan she was told by doctors that she probably had a dermoid cyst.
But after living with the cancerous cyst in her pelvis for two years - during which time she’d given birth to her youngest daughter Willow - she was diagnosed with a soft tissue sarcoma the size of a baby’s head. While the news was a shock at the time she said she was relieved the cause of her pain had been found, and she was operated on within days.
