Pregnancy after beating cancer: real story of a happy American woman

04.11.2014

Terrible breast cancer diagnosis do not become impediment to a maternity for a 33-year old American Amber Blos.

In mid-2012, doctors told Amber that she was discovered with an aggressive form of breast cancer. At that time, she has recently lost her baby, her first son Cameron was born 4 months premature and died in the hospital after 9 days. At that time Amber with her husband were planning a new pregnancy, but the diagnosis made some adjustments ...

However, the woman was not discouraged and quickly found a medical center, where a tumor was removed. Doctors from Arundel Medical Center even allowed her to keep the breasts by removing the neoplasm through lumpectomy, and patient was hoping she still be able to breastfeed another child. After successful surgery, she went to the clinic for Reproductive Medicine, where she frozen several ova. In the future, women was expecting 16 weeks of chemotherapy, and pass through hem Amber helped friends, blog and her husband Chris.

After the victory over disease, the woman began to plan a new pregnancy. Most oncologists ask their patients not to become pregnant for the first two years after treatment, as this increases risk of recurrence. But Amber's doctor entrusted to make a decision to the patient.

Fortunately, pregnancy brought no disappointments! Birthday baby Jace coincided with the date of completion of cancer treatment - Amber son was born exactly one year after she passed the last session of chemotherapy.

Based on: health-ua.org

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