Mother refuses cancer radiation therapy to save twins

According toFoxnewsIn 2011, Dick had surgery to remove a mole on his back, which was actually a malignant tumor.She then continued to have regular check-ups for five years until her doctor concluded that she was cancer-free.

In 2015, Dick gave birth to a healthy baby girl.Everything seemed to be going smoothly,In 2016 she got pregnant with twins again.However, when she was 17 weeks pregnant, Dick began having problems with her language, thinking it was caused by the pregnancy.

Dick went to the hospital when she had completely lost the ability to speak. Tests showed that she had advanced melanoma. Doctors found three tumors that had spread to her brain and two in her abdomen.During her pregnancy, Dick underwent several surgeries to remove tumors that invaded her brain and abdominal wall. Dr.advised her to undergo radiation therapy immediately to prolong her life by up to 5 years. However, this radiation therapy could kill the twins.

Dick refused radiation therapy and continued her pregnancy until the day both babies (a girl and a boy) were born.Because of cancer, she gave birth prematurely at only 29 weeks of pregnancy, each baby weighing 1.4 kg.

After giving birth, Dick immediately received intensive treatment butEarlier this year, the cancer had spread to her spinal cord. She was sent to a medical center in Houston, where doctors placed a catheter in her skull to deliver chemotherapy directly to her spinal cord, but it was too late.Dick passed away at the end of April.

"She was so sick that she couldn't be treated," said Dick's husband, Tyler.According to research from the Cleveland Clinic (USA), hormones that appear during pregnancy are considered to be the cause of melanoma developing and metastasizing very quickly.