Doctors told Durham woman, 24, cancerous cyst was pregnancy

Ms Colledge had a five-and-a-half-hour operation to remove the cyst and the ovary that was attached to it.

She had a second operation which took nine-and-a-half hours.

During the surgery she had a full hysterectomy, her appendix and spleen removed, some of her bowel removed and laser treatment. Ms Colledge also had a temporary stoma.

She then had six rounds of chemotherapy at the Teenage Cancer Trust unit at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle.

“I’m quite a loud person so when I went to the Teenage Cancer Trust unit, I met loads of friends who are my age, who I still speak to now," Ms Colledge said.