Air hostess beats cervical cancer AND saves her chance of motherhood

30.12.2014 10:17

A young woman diagnosed with cervical cancer managed to save her fertility as well as beat the disease after ignoring doctors' advice and seeking a second opinion.

Naomi Orme, 34, from Tamworth, West Midlands, feared the worst when she was diagnosed with cervical cancer just five months ago.

Doctors said her only chance of survival was to have a hysterectomy to remove her womb – but this would ruin her chances of ever becoming a mother.

Devastated - and desperate to keep her fertility - Ms Orme began researching other options online.

She found she was entitled to a second opinion and that another operation existed that could cure her cancer but wouldn't destroy her chance of motherhood.

Ms Orme eventually underwent a trachelectomy – a procedure which removes the upper part of the vagina and the cervix, but without damaging fertility as the womb is left in place.

She documented her entire cancer journey through her blog and hopes that by sharing her story, other women will seek a second opinion.

Ms Orme, an air hostess, said: 'I am over the moon to be cancer free in time for the New Year.

'I still don't believe I've actually managed to beat cancer.

'Since my diagnosis in July, I have had to battle with doctors to get the right treatment plan.

'If I wasn't so persistent about getting a second opinion, I would be infertile now.

'Beating cancer was always my main goal but I wanted children in the future and I knew deep down there was a way to keep my dream alive.'

Cervical cancer is the most common cancer in women under 35.

Ms Orme, who has never missed a regular smear test, first noticed something was wrong when she began bleeding after sex.

(dailymail.co.uk)

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