Woman told she has terminal cancer while giving birth

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “I already suffered from skin cancer, so I said to my doctor, ‘You don’t think I could have cancer?’ “And he said, “Oh no, it’s just you getting old and bodies don’t work as well.” open image in gallery Lois Walker with her baby Ray and son Ronnie Ms Walker found out she was pregnant in December 2020, and 14 weeks later she was left in terrible pain following an ultrasound scan. “The doctor said that I weighed the same as I did 12 months ago, and by this time, I was nine months pregnant – and that didn’t seem to ring any alarm bells.” Ms Walker said when the pain got too much to bear, she finally told doctors that she was prepared to kill herself if they did not take her concerns seriously. She added: “Then the final straw was when they had to get the mental health team involved because I said that it had reached the point where I would have to end both our lives, and I feel ashamed to say that.” Ms Walker’s doctor then conducted a more thorough probe into her concerns and found a mass behind her womb – leading them to deliver her baby the next day. “The doctor actually grabbed my hand and he cried and he actually said that he’d let me down.” Despite undergoing chemotherapy soon after she got her diagnosis, Ms Walker then found out that her cancer had spread, and it would be terminal.