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Cancer patient delivers healthy baby

A woman with cervical cancer gave birth to a healthy baby girl thanks to a successful high-risk surgery when she was 18 weeks pregnant, carried out at the Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital of Fudan University in Shanghai.

The patient is a 25-year-old woman from Zhejiang Province. The woman had begun to bleed in March, during the 16th week of pregnancy. She went to seek treatment and was diagnosed with cervical cancer.

The woman had visited a number of hospitals, and almost every doctor had recommended she terminate the pregnancy and remove her cervix and womb, but she insisted on keeping her baby.

Doctors said the detection of cervical cancer during pregnancy is about one in 10,000 women.

"The common way to treat pregnant woman with cervical cancer is to give up the fetus or to undergo open surgery to try to keep the baby," says Hua Keqin, gynecological expert at the Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital of Fudan University in Shanghai.

Because of the patient's insistence, doctors from the hospital chose to carry out minimally invasive surgery with a laparoscope, otherwise known as key-hole surgery.

"It would be easier for doctors to perform open surgery, such as abdominal surgery, but the risk to the fetus increases," says Hua. "Considering the patient's condition, we finally decided to carry out the surgery with a laparoscope, which was expected to have minimal impact on the woman and the fetus," Hua explains.

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