Rare cancer discovered after mum underwent hysterectomy

Donna Marklew had to undergo a hysterectomy to treat complications caused by childbirth.

But the operation led the Coventry mum to receive a life-changing diagnosis when tests later revealed she had a rare form of cancer.

She was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer, external, which was only discovered after tissue removed during a hysterectomy at Warwick Hospital was analysed following a uterine prolapse.

"I was very shocked because I'd never heard of neuroendocrine cancer," she said.

"[I] was left with not much information because it wasn't known to anybody, and then trying to explain to people [that] I've been diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer, you're kind of met with blank faces."