Just hours before surgery to remove an aggressive tumour, Rachel Crossland was given the bittersweet news that she was pregnant with twins.
‘I was devastated,’ said Mrs Crossland. ‘Before, I was only really worried about my life. We really wanted to keep them, but didn’t know we would be able to.’
Doctors told her the tumour on her bladder was the size of a golf ball, and after surgery she would need chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
She said: ‘The doctors told me lots of horror stories of what would happen to the babies if I had the treatment while pregnant and I was mortified.