I thought struggling to pee was down to a UTI - it was cancer & I had to have my vagina reconstructed with my bum cheek

A YOUNG woman who thought nothing of her urinary tract infection was later told she in fact had cancer and thought she might die.

Katie Arding, 29, had just settled down on the Gold Coast, Australia, with her boyfriend, Rhys Lord, 31, when she suddenly found herself unable to pee .

The hairdresser from Reading, Berkshire, had struggled going to the toilet for months but had put it down to a UTI .

But after going to hospital doctors found a 10cm mass on her pelvis, and following several weeks of testing, Katie was told had sarcoma - a rare tissue cancer.

"I had my anus and rectum removed and my uterus, cervix, both fallopian tubes, and one ovary," Katie said.

"I had a reconstruction of my vaginal wall.

"They used part of my bum cheek to put inside me to create that wall again