Babies Born Healthy While Pregnant Mother Chemotherapy

Sarah Best create a new medical history after becoming the first British woman successfully gave birth to healthy babies after undergoing radiotherapy and chemotherapy during pregnancy for the treatment of cancer in his mouth.

Sarah Best (30 years) was pregnant her first child who had stepped on the 4th month when diagnosed with oral cancer. The surgeon had removed a tumor is malignant, but the cancer has spread to lymph nodes and Sarah need radiotherapy, which could risk the health of babies that are unborn.

Sarah was very brave to decide to continue undergoing radiotherapy so that hospital staff made him a special lead shield to protect the stomach lump pregnant for 20 minutes each session of radiotherapy treatment.

These brave women undergoing radiotherapy 32 days at Coventry's University Hospital in March 2011, when her pregnancy was 6 months old. Meanwhile it is also undergoing chemotherapy treatment in an attempt to stop the cancer recurring.

"Patron is a costume that is made ​​to cover my pregnant belly bump. The engineers made ​​over the weekend and even came to see when I underwent radiotherapy action," explains Sarah Best from Leamington Spa, Warks, as reported mirror.co.uk, Thursday (11/17/2011).

She gave birth to a baby funny Jake on April 28, 2011 after three hours of labor. She tells how her labor process that is driven directly from the ward to the maternity ward of cancer radiotherapy.

"I hope Jake was born at least 1 month after my treatment ended, but suddenly I had to give birth and nurse pushed me down the corridor of the ward radiotherapy to the maternity ward," recalls Sarah.

Sarah's medical plan becomes chaotic after the baby Jake was born his mother immediately after the last treatment. Jake was born five weeks early, weighing 2.1 kg.

"He was a small miracle. He was so special for us and fortunately very healthy. He smiled and smart. I could not be more lucky," explains Sarah.

Consultant oncologist Dr Lydia Fresco who helped design the protective shield baby Sarah said that the combination of chemotherapy with radiotherapy is very aggressive and never considered normal for pregnant women.

"But since she was young and very fit, and the cancer is in the head and neck, it was decided that the combination treatment would be safe to use. All tests on Jake's show that he is really healthy," explains Dr Lydia Fresco.

Sarah's body is now declared free of cancer, but he but had to undergo regular check-ups to make sure the cancer does not return.