Mum-to-be, 29, was struggling to get up the stairs - then got a shocking diagnosis

A mum-to-be was struggling to get up the stairs - only to go to the doctor with breathing difficulties and find out she has stage three cancer. She has vowed to do all she can to give her baby "a fighting chance" of survival as she battles the deadly disease.

Hannah Williams, 29, discovered she was pregnant with her first child in April this year. Two months later, the proud mum-to-be was struck down with a suspected chest infection which left her struggling to breathe - and was later given the devastating diagnosis of stage three lung cancer.

She said: "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.

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"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."

Hannah, an eyelash technician who runs her own business, had attended Liverpool A&E with "minor chest pain" in June, and received a diagnosis of pneumonia following a chest X-ray. She was not given antibiotics due to her pregnancy, and so doctors warned her her illness "would get worse before it got better", reports the Echo.

She said: "A week later, I was really struggling to breathe just doing general daily tasks. As I live in a top floor apartment, I could barely get half way up the stairs.

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

"After a further three days I was back in A&E. I had another