Doctors warned that delaying treatment until after birth could allow the cancer to spread, but her pregnancy was too far along for standard keyhole surgery.
Ten-week-old Rafferty Isaac is being called a ‘miracle’ after being born not once, but twice—thanks to a groundbreaking medical procedure that saved both his life and his mother’s. Lucy, 32, was just 20 weeks pregnant when doctors at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital performed a five-hour operation to temporarily remove her womb—with Rafferty still inside—to treat her aggressive ovarian cancer. Against staggering odds, the womb was successfully reinserted, and Rafferty was delivered safely in late January, weighing 6lb 5oz.
Second Paragraph: *”The cancer was discovered during a routine 12-week scan, leaving Lucy and her husband, Adam, with an agonizing choice: delay treatment until after birth, risking the cancer spreading, or attempt a radical surgery never before performed at such an advanced stage of pregnancy. ‘We knew the risks, but we had to try,’ Lucy said. Leading the team, surgeon Hooman Soleymani Majd admitted the procedure was ‘by far the most complex’ of his career, as the cancer had reached grade two, extending beyond Lucy’s ovaries.