health and fitness: Cancer patient mother says she would have kept her baby 'in my tummy'

mardi 26 janvier 2016

Cancer patient mother says she would have kept her baby 'in my tummy'

Heidi Loughlin says she would not have chosen to deliver baby 12 weeks early to undergo chemotherapy had she known daughter would not survive

A woman whose baby was delivered 12 weeks early so she could begin intensive treatment for breast cancer without harming the child has said she would have made some very different decisions if she had known her daughter would die.

Heidi Loughlin, 32, had been diagnosed last September with inflammatory breast cancer, a rare and fast-spreading form of the condition. Doctors said she could terminate her pregnancy to undergo aggressive treatment using the drug Herceptin, which can harm a foetus, but she declined, beginning a milder treatment instead.