A mother has told of the moment she was left unable to talk as doctors diagnosed her with cancer, just weeks before she was due to give birth.

Kezia Summers, 34, from Perth in WA , was forced into an emergency delivery after being called into hospital in the early hours of July 25 when a sinister find was picked up during routine antenatal blood tests.

“It was huge — I was absolutely speechless,” she told 7NEWS.com.au.

“It’s just not something that I thought would happen to someone like me.

“No one in my circle has had cancer.”

The former singing teacher was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), an aggressive form of cancer impacting the blood and bone marrow .

There had been little warning something was wrong, other than feeling a little more breathless and sapped of e

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