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.

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.

She had struggled going to the toilet for the months previously 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 she had a high grade pleomorphic spindle cell sarcoma - a rare tissue cancer.

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.