{"id":765474,"date":"2026-09-09T22:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T22:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/765474\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T22:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T22:06:09","slug":"huddersfield-mum-urges-young-women-to-check-for-ovarian-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/765474\/","title":{"rendered":"Huddersfield mum urges young women to check for ovarian cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A young mum who was diagnosed with incurable ovarian cancer has urged other women to be aware of the disease and its symptoms, regardless of their age. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alex Littlewood, 25, from Huddersfield, was told she had the illness in June this year, just months after she gave birth to her daughter, Tilly. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the NHS, ovarian cancer mostly affects women over the age of 50, but Alex &#8211; who is now undergoing intensive chemotherapy &#8211; said her experience showed younger women were also at risk. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said anyone who suspected there was something wrong should &#8220;push to go to the doctors, push for the tests you deserve and get an answer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alex said her initial symptoms were back and abdominal pain, which she first detected while she was pregnant with seven-month-old Tilly. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Throughout pregnancy, I was told that&#8217;s normal &#8211; a lot of women have back and abdominal pain during pregnancy,&#8221; she explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But after having Tilly, I found it was just persistent and just carried on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So the back pain and abdominal pain were two of my biggest symptoms and how I knew something wasn&#8217;t right.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young mum who was diagnosed with incurable ovarian cancer has urged other women to be aware of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-765474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}