Nursery nurse, 17, told her stomach cramps were period pains actually had cervical cancer and can now never have children

Amy Heatman, from Liverpool, said she was heartbroken when doctors said she would need a hysterectomy. She said: 'In a way, that was harder to deal with than being told I had cervical cancer.' The nursery nurse, 17, spent three weeks going back and forth from her doctors after her stomach cramps became unbearable. 


But because of her age, her symptoms were ignored until her mother, Jillian, 49, demanded a referral. An ultrasound detected an orange-sized tumour in her cervix and she was told she would need chemotherapy and radiotherapy.