Mum's miracle after being told she could never have children due to devastating diagnosis

A woman who was told she would never have children after a valiant cancer battle went on to bring two "miracle" twins into the world.

Hannah Hill was 18 when her life was turned upside down by a devastating brain tumour diagnosis. The teenager, from Haydock, suffered a sudden seizure and was taken to Wigan Royal Albert Infirmary, where scans detected the sinister mass growing inside her brain, the ECHO reports.

She underwent brain surgery to remove the tumour on September 27, 2006, two days before her 19th birthday. During this procedure, a glioblastoma was discovered - an aggressive form of brain cancer with an average life expectancy of 14 to 16 months. The disease left Hannah with a miniscule 1% chance of survival after 10 years - but 17 years later, the 36-year-old mum is still going strong.

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She underwent 30 sessions of intense radiotherapy, followed by seven months of chemotherapy with a trial drug at The Christie hospital in Manchester. The treatment saved her life - but she was told that, due to the damage to her pituitary gland, she would not be able to conceive a child naturally.

She said: “Although when growing up all I wanted was to be a mum; being told at 19 I couldn’t get pregnant naturally was not my priority - beating this horrible cancer was. But as I grew a little older, and the cancer was at bay, being a mum was at the forefront of my mind again."

Hannah was declared cancer-free in July 2007, and the following year she travelled to Australia, where she met her future husband Mike at a rugby