ROOME. YOUNGEST OVARIAN CANCER GIRL HAS MIRACLE BABY.

WHEN Linda Roome fought her battle with ovarian cancer at the age of 13 she was the youngest person in Britain to be diagnosed with that form of the disease. To save her life doctors had to remove on of her ovaries - and on it was a cancerous growth weighed a massive 10Ib’s, more than the weight of a newborn baby. Doctors told her that the chemotherapy treatment she needed could leave her infertile. But last year, Miss Roome, 21, from Glasgow amazed the doctors by giving birth to her son Callum. Miss Roome, a nursery nurse, said ‘I was the youngest person in Britain ever to have this type of ovarian cancer, and I never thought I would ever be a mum. ‘But I’ve given birth to Callum against all the odds - he really is my miracle baby.’ [download copy]