Pregnant mum, 21, risked her life by refusing treatment for lung cancer to save unborn baby - Mirror Online: Daniella Jackson was faced with the agonising choice of having an operation that would save her from cancer – or keeping the baby she was carrying. Doctors said it was urgent that a growing tumour in her left lung was removed but that was not an option while Daniella, 21, was pregnant.
She was due to give birth to her second baby in four months. By then it might be too late so she was asked to consider an abortion to save her life.
For Daniella there was only one answer. She said: “I was determined to have my baby. I felt such a close bond with her. I couldn’t let her go.” Her decision meant the rest of her pregnancy felt like a desperate race against time as the cancer grew.
In January she gave birth to a premature but healthy baby daughter. A month later mum was well enough to have the operation, which involved removing half of her lung. Now cancer free, the full-time mum is recovering at home.
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