A British mother has praised the extraordinary efforts of her medical team after undergoing a rare and complex surgery to remove her womb—and unborn baby—from her body to save both her life and her son’s.
Lucy Isaac, a 32-year-old special needs teacher from Oxfordshire, was just 12 weeks pregnant when her dreams of motherhood were threatened by a devastating diagnosis: ovarian cancer. Doctors warned that she needed life-saving surgery immediately, and time was not on her side.
