"The baby bump" of my pretty 14 year old daughter ended up killing her "

When Mom Ienco was asked if her 14-year-old daughter was pregnant during a netball training, she was outraged.

Her "sweet" Giovanna had always had a small "pot belly", but watching her train, she could see that her stomach was protruding.

And later, when she felt the stomach overflowing, this schoolgirl was shocked to discover what appeared to be a five month old baby bump.

"I panicked, imagining the worst," Angel remembered.

The stomach of her daughter being very dry, she began to ask terrifying questions, whether the teenager could have been attacked.

But later, Giovanna did not expect it.

Instead, she had an ovarian cancer "silent killer". – with the mystery & # 39; bump & # 39 ;, a tumor the size of a football on its ovary.

And in July 2012, despite a grueling chemotherapy, Giovanna died peacefully, surrounded by her broken-hearted family.

The brave teenager was only 15 years old.

"Our daughter is the bravest, the strongest and the most beautiful person I know," said Angel of Merbein, Australia, to Mirror Online today.

"And I am so proud and honored that she has chosen me to be his mother."

In a message to other parents, she added, "Always talk to your children about their health and make them aware of changes in their bodies.

"Organize the dialogue and teach them that they can defend their health.Education is essential for our children to learn more about their bodies and about the silent diseases that can result."

"Bubbly" Giovanna, fondly nicknamed "G", was taking part in a netball training when her coach approached her mother.

She asked him, "Is Giovanna pregnant?", Leaving her furious.

In a beautiful letter to her daughter, published on Kidspot, Angel remembers, "What is that? She's only a kid!" J & # 39; searched inside. "

But that night, the mother gently asked her daughter if she could smell her stomach – and discovered the apparent baby bump.

"Put my hands on your belly, it was like a baby bump of five months and rock-hard," she wrote in the letter.

The next day, Giovanna was taken to the doctor, where she did a pregnancy test before rushing for an ultrasound.

The badysis revealed its huge growth.

And later, after undergoing surgery to remove her 10 kilogram tumor, the courageous teenager was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

"They removed her ovary with a 10-kg tumor," said Angel.

"Giovanna was hospitalized for five days.

"At that time, disbelief was gone and we were all optimistic about going home." Of course, Giovanna was at the moon with her new figure and flat belly. [But on] On May 8, 2012, we were brought to Melbourne to be told that Giovanna had ovarian cancer. "

The schoolgirl, who had undergone surgery at the Royal Children's Hospital of Victoria, then underwent chemotherapy.

She had her first treatment at her 15th birthday.

While her main concern was losing her hair, her mother worried that she would not be able to have children in the future.

"We did not know it was not our main concern," Angel said.

She added, "All she wanted for her birthday was a party with all her friends." Two weeks after her chemo, 20 of her best friends joined her to celebrate her 15th birthday.

"She later said that it was the best night of her life.

"I'm so happy and grateful for doing that, it's even more special now that it was his last birthday."

Giovanna, who was also suffering from fatigue before being diagnosed, was rushed to hospital at the end of May 2012.

She was in agony, her belly getting bigger again. And this time he has grown to the size of a nine-month-old baby.

"I even had to buy a size 20 pajama pants," wrote Angel, who also has a son, Nando, in his touching letter to his daughter.

After spending a week at the Royal Children's Hospital, Giovanna was transferred to the Royal Women's Hospital Parkville Hospital in Melbourne.

Despite the best efforts of the doctor, her organs began to close and we calmed her to relieve her pain, her family remaining at her side.

And at noon on July 25, the schoolgirl lost her brave battle, as her sobbing mother told her, "Go darling, fly with the angels."

His last wish, altruistic, was for his family to raise funds for Ronald McDonald Houses, which provide "home away from home" to seriously ill children and their loved ones.

Today, Angel and her husband Fred live "everyone's worst nightmare", suffering from a "dull ache" constantly present.

But in the honor of their beloved daughter, they created "Giovanna's Gift", a charitable organization that raises awareness and funds for ovarian cancer research and Ronald Homes. McDonald.

The couple, who are determined to ensure that "no one else should walk" in their place, is funding a room at Ronald McDonald House in Parkville in memory of Giovanna.

And they also bring together "indispensable funds for teenagers with cancer, who are sometimes" forgotten "about gifts and essentials."

They are desperate to spare other families a similar pain.

"Ovarian cancer, the silent killer, is not as known as its cousin, bad cancer, but can be a lot more dangerous," Angel said.

Ovarian cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in women, but its symptoms can be difficult to recognize.

According to the NHS, they include a swollen stomach, a constantly bloated feeling, stomach or pelvic discomfort, a feeling of quick satiety when you eat and the urge to urinate more often than normal.

• For more information on "Giovanna's Gift", you can visit the charity's Facebook page here or her website here