A woman who thought she just had a UTI was diagnosed with a rare tissue cancer and had to have part of her vagina wall reconstructed using some of her bum cheek.<br /><br />Brit 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 urinate.<br /><br />She had struggled going to the toilet for the months previously but had put it down to a UTI.<br /><br />But after going to hospital doctors found a 10cm mass on her pelvis, and following several weeks of testing, Katie was told she had a high grade pleomorphic spindle cell sarcoma - a rare tissue cancer.<br /><br />Katie returned to the UK for treatment and had chemotherapy before she was able to undergo a 12-hour surgery to remove the tumour, her anus, rectum, uterus, cervix, fallopian tubes and one ovary.
