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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Her tumor grew back twice in a 3 month period. It was obviously an extremely aggressive cancer. There really is no way she had years left if she'd taken the treatment. At most, the treatment would have bought her a very sickly month or two.[/quote]

Exactly. It wasn't that dramatic of a choice; it was a pragmatic plan. [/quote]

Keeping your brain-dead, skull-less wife alive on life support to incubate the fetus wasn't a dramatic choice?!!?!?[/quote]

Not anymore than keeping her barely alive and suffering through chemo. [/quote]

again, chemo could have kept her alive longer and the baby gestating longer. [/quote]

She couldn't have done the chemo while pregnant.  [/quote]

YES she could have. There's research showing chemo and radiation after the first trimester are OK; and certainly preferable to a micro-preemie. [/quote]
By the time she was out of the first trimester, she was already brain dead or very close to it. Also, chemotherapy differs for every type of cancer. The meds that can be used in pregnancy may not have been able to treat brain cancer, especially since they need to cross the blood brain barrier. There is no phase of pregnancy where those drugs can be used safely.[/quote]

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