The 39-year-old, who was treated for life-saving radiation therapy in Kenya just six months prior, is originally from the Thyolo district in southern Malawi.
These machines may eliminate the need for additional cancer-stricken women to fly overseas for care, as Malawi has just lately acquired its first ones.
“After 13 weeks of pregnancy, physicians found I had cervical cancer, and I was admitted as an emergency case. The mother of three tells the news, “They told me these two things don’t go together.”
She claims that the medical professionals in Malawi informed her that although she may receive chemotherapy to treat the malignancy, doing so would end the pregnancy.
She chose to receive chemotherapy up until the baby was delivered via Caesarean section and was able to walk out of it.
The same procedure included the removal of her uterus.
Prior to receiving the diagnosis, Ms. Masasa had lower abdominal cramps, vaginal discharge that didn’t go away, and bleeding. First, medical professionals believed it to be an STD.
She had surgery and chemotherapy, but she still need more treatment to fully eradicate the disease, and it wasn’t available in Malawi until early this year.
She went to a Nairobi hospital in Kenya with thirty other ladies who were being sent by the humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to receive radiation treatment in order to destroy the malignant cells.
