Limited Options

In the particular case of Lea, who would have advanced melanoma while pregnant, the option to treat is usually radiation. And for her, she could only receive radiation in areas that couldn’t affect the baby since this particular kind of therapy would cause harmful effects to both mother and child. It was also shared that ‘a child born after receiving chemotherapy can experience malformations, organ toxicity and brain damage and mother can experience a spontaneous abortion and sterility.’ So radiation didn’t actually feel like much of an option at all.