Printer-friendly versionLondon doctors were treating a woman for cancer and suggested she have an abortion when her unborn twin girls kicked and dislodged a tumor before it was too late.



 
Doctors who treated a London woman for cancer said that her life was saved by her unborn twins, whose kicking dislodged the tumor. According to the doctors, if the twins had not kicked the tumor loose, it would not have been discovered until it was too late.


Doctors advised Michelle Stepney and her husband, Scott, to have an abortion to undergo cancer treatment and a hysterectomy. They refused, waiting for treatment until the twins were born. "I owe my life to my girls,” she said. "I knew I could have an operation straight away and it would cure me, but that would mean getting rid of my babies and I couldn't do that."


"I couldn't believe that the babies had dislodged the tumor," Michelle said. "I'd felt them kicking, but I didn't realize just how important their kicking would turn out to be." Recent tests showed that she is still free from cancer.