A brave student who was told her "unexpected pregnancy" was an ovarian tumour has beaten the disease and graduated cancer-free as a key worker.
Becky Brothwood was just 18 and preparing to apply for university when she was given heartbreaking news following a doctor appointment for a routine contraception injection.
After complaining of bloating and tiredness while getting her third dose of the jab, she was asked to take a pregnancy test, Liverpool Echo reports.
It came back positive - but her GP knew something was wrong with the shock result and Becky felt sure the dates didn't add up.
She was rushed to A&E over fears that it could be an ectopic pregnancy, in which a fertilised egg implants itself outside the womb.
But when the college student came out of surgery at the hospital in December 2014, doctors told her it was an ovarian tumour.
Weeks later, she received her biopsy results confirming she had stage one cancer and started treatment at Clatterbridge Hospital in Wirral.
The brave 18-year-old underwent nine weeks of gruelling chemotherapy which left her in a "trance" and devastated her family.
Becky said: "It send me into a bit of a trance and I thought now I'm on the other side of the fence.
"You see people on Children in Need and think 'how would you deal with that?' and then all of a sudden you're on that side of the fence."
With Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month beginning in March, we're revisiting Becky's story from 2017 to mark the start of the campaign.
Fortunately Becky's cancer was caught before it had spread to any other parts of her body - but this isn't the case for many woman who are diagnosed with the disease.
Her story was featured on BBC's Inside Out North West 'The Silent Killer' documentary, which aired last year on the first anniversary of broadcaster Dianne Oxberry's death from ovarian cancer.
Brave Becky is now a key worker, having gone on to graduate from Bangor University with a degree in Health and Social Care before starting work as a dementia nurse.
She previously told North Wales Live that she was determined to get on with her education despite the immense challenges she faced, returning to college two weeks after treatment ended.
"I really wanted to go to Bangor. When I got the offer I kept thinking ‘this time last year I was in hospital – now I am going to university’," she explained back in 2017.
The 20-year-old said filming the BBC documentary was emotional as it revealed how her illness had affected her father Ian Brothwood.
Speaking on the programme about the moment he heard it was a suspected tumour, he said: "You're just numb, you don't really process it, I just stood there in the kitchen for a while and [...] you don't know what that is going to mean."
Ian added: "The treatment itself was brutal, really brutal. That was the most difficult to watch your child go through something which is absolutely tortuous.
"She's my little inspiration, Rebecca, she blows my mind."
Describing the critical moments in A&E before her diagnosis, Becky said: "At that point I was freaking out because they thought it was an ectopic pregnancy. I went to Fazakerley and then Ormskirk and then they said it was an ectopic pregnancy.
"I had to stay overnight and had tests and scans. The next day I was in surgery by 4pm.
"When I woke up they said the tumour was too big to remove and we were like 'what do you mean a tumour?'
"They said it was just medical terminology - but we didn't have the diagnosis until after I had the second surgery to get it removed. They called me after taking a biopsy and said it was cancer."
Becky now wants to raise awareness that ovarian cancer can also affect young women under the age of 30 and help people to recognise the symptoms.