A pharmacist who dishes out drug to cancer patients had to fend off the disease herself after being diagnosed with an ovarian tumour.
Amy Smith-Morris, 32, then defied expectations by getting pregnant despite having had an ovary and fallopian tube removed.
Dr Smith-Morris, from Saskatoon in Canada, is now in remission and a mother to Max, who was born last month.
She first noticed something was wrong when she gained weight, felt bloated and suffered from heartburn for the first time.
When the symptoms didn't go away after returning from her honeymoon to Italy and Greece in 2016, she decided it was time to see a doctor.
They found a 21cm tumour on her left ovary and did four cycles of chemotherapy to kill the cancer.
Amy Smith-Morris, a pharmacist who helps treat cancer patients, said she believes a positive mindset is key to fighting the disease (Pictured: After her chemotherapy in early 2017)
Discussing her original symptoms, Dr Smith-Morris said: 'Because of my young age, no one expected cancer.
'But many strange things can grow on ovaries, so [my doctor] sent me for an ultrasound to see if there was a fibroid or something. Unfortunately, a large tumour was found.
'In that moment, I was definitely in shock. I lay down on my bed and called my mum because I felt like my world had just stopped.
'We all have that inner voice that tells us when something is wrong. Mine was saying that this news wasn't going to be good.
'The gynaecologist came in, sat next to me on the bed, and said it was cancer.'
Dr Smith-Morris said she began feeling ill after her honeymoon to Europe with her husband, Marc, 31, in the autumn of 2016.
Originally thinking the weight gain and bloating were signs of a pizza, cheese and wine overload, she suspected something more sinister when they didn't go away.
She described her symptoms as 'sneaky' and said she knew ovarian cancer was notoriously difficult to spot.
'When you're trained as a clinician, you don't stop acting like a clinician when you become the patient,' she said.
'I began asking questions about what they saw on the scan to try to predict my chances of surviving.
'I had a rare form of ovarian cancer and a mixed tumour so it's really difficult to put my diagnosis in a box. The tumour was a mix of a teratoma and a type of germ cell tumour.
Dr Smith-Morris finished her cancer treatment in 2017 and has since managed to return to work full-time and last year became pregnant despite having one of her ovaries removed
Dr Smith-Morris (pictured with her husband, Marc, after her recovery) said she believes maintaining a positive mindset was crucial to her recovery
'I had one ovary and the fallopian tube removed. In my case, this included a tumour that had engulfed my left ovary, measuring 21 centimetres [8.2ins] by 10 centimetres [3.9ins].
'I then started chemotherapy just before Christmas 2016. I did a total of four cycles, each 21 days apart and I finished in early March 2017.'
Despite having a large part of her reproductive system removed, Dr Smith-Morris clung to her hope of starting a family.
And, after being healed of the cancer in 2017, she managed to return to full-time work after spending months recovering during which she was crippled by fatigue.
Then last summer she found out she was pregnant.
Comparing the trials of pregnancy to her cancer ordeal, she said it was 'easy'
