16-year-old Hannah Fraser was pulled out of a GCSE exam after she complained of feeling tired.

The student was rushed to hospital where she was told a tumor wrapped around her windpipe.

The schoolgirl was initially given iron tablets for ‘anemia’ when she told her GP that she was feeling fatigued.

Her mother, 57-year-old Denise Carter, said her daughter was taking increasing doses of iron tablets to combat her tiredness.

“They didn’t work so we went back about three weeks later and they upped her dose,” she said.

When the iron tablets didn’t help her at all, she was referred for a CT scan.

While waiting for the results, Hannah sat her exam only for her dad Duncan Fraser to show up. She was rushed to hospital where she was told she had a tumor.

“When we got there we had to go to ward 3B and when we went in I knew straight away I had cancer because of all the posters on the wall,” Hannah recalled.

“We waited to see a professor and he told me, “You have a tumour around your windpipe”.

“He said he was pretty certain it was Hodgkin lymphoma but they would do a biopsy to check.”

One week later doctors confirmed it was Hodgkin lymphoma. Her mother, Ms. Carter, said: “’They couldn’t believe she was that fit and well when they saw her, they thought she was going to be in so much pain.”

The teen had her lymph nodes removed and underwent chemotherapy.

“I think it properly sunk in when I lost my hair,” Hannah said. “I woke up one morning and there was clumps of hair on my pillow.

“And another day I woke up and my face was so swollen, that was when it sunk in that this is what I’m going to look like.”

While on treatment, she sat her GCSEs at home with an invigilator. She thought that she would’ve failed them all but the teen broke down in tears of joy when she achieved seven GCSEs.

“I didn’t really expect to pass any of them,” she said. “I didn’t want to open my results with everyone else so my teacher took me into her office.

“When I opened the envelope I burst out crying I couldn’t believe it, I rang my mum crying.

“She was standing with the other mums and she thought I was crying because I was upset at first but they were happy tears.

“She ran over and hugged me and then all the other mums came running over afterwards, it was really good.”

Less than two months after the results of her exam came back, Hannah was told she was in remission and no longer needed further treatment. She will only have check-ups for the next few years.

“I’m so proud of her she was so strong and so positive throughout it,” Ms Carter expressed. “You can’t believe this time last year what she was going through.”

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