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Pregnant Woman Diagnosed With Stage Three Cancer After Suffering From 'chest Infection'

Hannah Williams, 29, had no clue when she found out she was pregnant that just two months later she would be diagnosed with stage three cancer. But she has vowed to give her baby a "fighting chance" of survival

Hannah Williams, 29, was in and out of hospital to find out the cause of her chest problems(Echo)

A mum-to-be who was diagnosed with stage three cancer will "try her hardest" to keep going for her baby - and said "everything happens for a reason".

Hannah Williams, 29, found out in April she was pregnant with her first child, Nova. But barely two months into the pregnancy, a suspected nasty chest infection led to her diagnosis of stage three lung cancer.

Eyelash technician Hannah went to A&E with "minor chest pain" in June and was diagnosed with pneumonia after a chest X-Ray.

Hannah explained to the Liverpool Echo, "I was really struggling to breathe just doing general daily tasks. As I live in a top floor apartment, I could barely get halfway up the stairs."

"I went to my GP, he listened to my chest, and said chest infection. Two days later I went to the walk-in centre, who prescribed me a blue inhaler and five days Amoxicillin.

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Hannah with her dog, Bentley(Echo)

After returning to A&E and receiving another pneumonia diagnosis, Hannah discharged herself from hospital - only to find herself back within hours.

"I got home, got to bed, and within an hour I had multiple missed calls saying I needed to immediately return for treatment. Eventually I had a CT scan, which confirmed a mass on my left lung which had grown so much in three weeks they knew it was serious."

Just 24 hours after the scan, Hannah was diagnosed with stage three cancer and was prepped for urgent chemotherapy. A tube was used to remove over 4.5 litres of fluid from her left lung - the tube remains in her chest.

She was given the option of terminating her pregnancy due to the possible effects of chemotherapy, but Hannah said: "It's my decision to go ahead as far as I can go with my pregnancy. I'm hoping and praying I can get her far enough to give her a fighting chance.

She added: "I'm a positive person, and I believe everything does happen for a reason. I am strong enough, young enough and fit enough to fight this. With being pregnant, it makes everything escalate quicker.

Hannah Williams, 29, was diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer in June 2023 - two months after finding out she was expecting her first baby(Hannah Williams)

"But it was never an option for me to terminate my baby. Regardless of the outcome, all I know is I tried my hardest and I never took the possible easy way out."

While Hannah undergoes treatment at the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, her friend, Natalie Myles, has set up an online fundraiser to support her while she remains unable to work.

Natalie said: "Anyone who knows Hannah will know she has always been independent and self-sufficient. Unfortunately, with the current circumstances, we now just want her to focus on getting better and not finances."

Hannah Williams, 29 (second from left), was diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer in June 2023(Hannah Williams)

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Hannah said: "Nothing makes sense to me right now. In the space of four weeks, my whole world has been turned upside down. My friends have been my rock. I literally could never ever thank them for what they have done.

"There was a lot of pressure on me the day after chemotherapy as my rent was six days late, so my friends took it upon themselves to set a go fund me page up. I cannot believe the amount of support and generosity from people. I am so overwhelmed.

"When I am better, I want to go into nursing and help as many people as I possibly can. After being between Clatterbridge and ICU, I can not fault one nurse. Every single one has been amazing and has opened my eyes to how special they are."

Grandma Diagnosed With Lung Cancer After Smoking For 50 Years Says: 'I Tried Everything To Stop'

A grandmother who smoked for more than 50 years before she was diagnosed with lung cancer said she "tried everything" to quit - even resorting to hypnotism. Bridget Haynes was just 14 when she tried her first cigarette to fit in with her friends.

It became a regular habit from the age of 16 after she met her husband Harry. She became such a prolific smoker, she even smoked while she was nursing her own mother through lung cancer.

Bridget, who has three children and seven grandchildren, was diagnosed with lung cancer in March 2017 and told that – without treatment - she may have as little as six months to live. Six months of chemotherapy followed but when that failed to shrink the cancer, she was given six months of immunotherapy.

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Later scans showed her tumour had shrunk to half the size after the second round of treatment. She now wants others to realise the dangers of smoking before it is too late.

Her mum, Margaret, smoked for nearly five decades before she died from lung cancer in 1986, aged just 61. Margaret met her 13 grandchildren but never got to see them all grow up.

Bridget Haynes

She said: "I hated it at first, but people encouraged me to keep smoking. In the 60s it was very fashionable to have a cigarette and all my family smoked.

"I was around it all my life. I nursed my mum through lung cancer , which was awful, but I still carried on smoking. I tried everything to give up over the years including hypnotism, gum, patches – you name it." She said being diagnosed with cancer was "the worst day of my life".

"I was so scared, I thought I was going to be dead and buried within weeks," she said. Bridget cut down to three a day before briefly switching to a vape.

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"I haven't smoked since I stopped vaping and I'm so relieved none of my children or grandchildren smoke," said Bridget. "But there are so many people out there still smoking I think we need to do everything we can to protect the next generation.

"People are paying with their lives for the current lack of funding and support to quit smoking and it's got to stop. That's why I'm backing this vitally important campaign and hope I can inspire others to do the same."

Six years on she's sharing her story to encourage people to sign a Cancer Research UK petition - part of its Smokefree UK campaign - which calls on the Government for more support to help people quit smoking.

The charity has urged the Prime Minister to set up a 'Smokefree Fund' to pay for vital interventions, like stop smoking services and public health campaigns, and said the tobacco industry should be made to foot the bill for the damage it caused rather than taxpayers. In the West Midlands, around 13.8 per cent of people still smoke.

Jonnie Irwin 'Embracing' Palliative Care Amid Terminal Cancer: 'It's Not This Doom And Gloom Operation'

Jonnie Irwin is opening up about spending the past three years in palliative care.

On Monday, the British TV presenter, who revealed he had terminal lung cancer last year, appeared on BBC Morning Live where he gave an update on how's he's doing since the 2020 diagnosis.

"I'm really good. I have up days and down days but today is very much an up day. The family is great and very noisy," he said with a laugh, noting life at home with his wife Jessica and their three children — Rex, 3, and 2-year-old twins, Rafa and Cormac.

Irwin, 49, explained that he's been in palliative care since day one after learning about the cancer. Initially, his experience meant going through blood transfusions as a day patient. However, he said he was able to "embrace it" after being surprised with how well he was treated.

"It's a delight, actually," he admitted. "My perception of the hospice was very much a boiling hot room full of people that looked frail and towards the end of their days. This is nothing of the sort. It's spacious, energized, comfortable. I mean, it's even got a jacuzzi bath, ensuite rooms, and the staff are just amazing. So I've had a really, really good experience at my hospice."

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During the segment, Irwin was joined by an NHS clinician Dr. Ranj Singh, who said that when palliative care is mentioned, people automatically assume the worst and that it's a "hopeless" environment. He said he wants to reframe how people view it, seeing it as medical professionals "changing the focus from curing a condition to making you as comfortable as possible and giving you the best quality of life that you can have for however long you may have left."

Meanwhile, Irwin offered advice to those in the same situation as him or those with loved ones in similar situations, urging them to be open with the experience as he learned to do.

"First of all, embrace it. I was invited to use the hospice and I thought, well, I'll give it a go just as a day patient," he explained, sharing that the experience quickly shot down his grim expectations. "I implore people to check out hospice. If you've got the choice of using it, then use it. It's not this doom and gloom operation that you might think it was."

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Irwin was first diagnosed in August 2020 after experiencing blurred vision while driving. A series of tests soon confirmed he had lung cancer.

"Within a week of flying back from filming, I was being given six months to live," he recalled to Hello magazine earlier this month. "I had to go home and tell my wife, who was looking after our babies, that she was on her own pretty much. That was devastating. All I could do was apologize to her. I felt so responsible."

The husband and father added that his main goal right now is to inspire others to "make the most of every day."

Back in November 2022, the Escape to the Country host told The Sun he hadn't told his children about his illness as it would be "a lot for them to get their heads around." Now that his cancer has spread to his brain, he said he doesn't know how much time he has left.

"Then, I think they're not going to remember me, they're really not," he shared. "They're too young and if I die this year there's no chance they will have memories. And someone else is probably going to bring them up. I've done the hard yards with them and someone else will get the easy bit."

On family trips to Cypress and Paris, Irwin has focused on documenting their activities. "I want to make those memories for Jess, even if the kids don't remember it," he continued to tell The Sun. "So if she looks at the photo album when I'm long gone she can say to the boys, 'Here's the time your dad chucked you in a pool' or, 'Here's the time we went for that day out.'"

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