''I found out I had cancer when I was six months pregnant"

A mum has spoken out about the terrifying moment she found out she had an extremely rare form of cancer while six months pregnant. Aimee Hill, 33, said a 'freckle' was spotted in the back of her left eye during a routine check-up at her optician in November 2020.

She underwent more tests and was quickly referred to hospital where further scans showed she had ocular melanoma - an eye cancer found in around 750 people in the UK each year. Aimee then had to make the almost impossible decision about whether to start treatment straight away or wait until her unborn baby had been delivered.

"Obviously, being six months pregnant and being diagnosed with cancer was a traumatic and difficult time," she said. "My pregnancy wasn't easy either. I was really sick and I already felt like I was going through it - and then to be diagnosed with cancer was devastating.

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"But then I was like 'right, you need to sort yourself out now because you need to ask questions about the baby and how this is all going to affect him'. There was a risk of miscarriage with treatment as I'd need to go under general anaesthetic, but there was also a risk of the cancer growing or spreading elsewhere.

"I obviously didn't want to have cancer anymore, but at the same time I didn't want to do anything that was going to affect the baby. I was advised to start treatment straight away so that's what I did."

Aimee, from Port Talbot in Wales, had her initial eye scans carried out at Singleton Hospital in Swansea and had to attend the appointment alone due to Covid restrictions, reports Wales Online. She recalled: "As soon as I went in to see the doctor and she