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Kathleen Osborne has been fighting cancer since she was a little girl. But at 28, when she went in for an MRI of her leg, she found out she was pregnant \u2014 and she made the choice to save her preborn child.<\/p>\n

In 2005, at 11 years old, Osborne was diagnosed with osteosarcoma. She underwent chemotherapy and had two metal rods inserted into her leg, and thought the rest of her life would be uneventful. She welcomed two little boys, only for cancer to return in 2016. “About three or four months after I had my second son [Leo], I had pain all down my side and I couldn’t move, I was bent over in pain,” she told the Daily Mail<\/a>. “I had a scan after the doctors found fluid on my lungs and that’s where they saw this big mass on my lung which they couldn’t biopsy as it was touching vital organs. It turned out the cancer was back, and within a week, I was back in hospital for chemo. Childhood cancer usually comes back within two or three years, but mine came back after 11. It was really rare, it’s not often they see that so they had to act quickly.”<\/p>\n

The chemotherapy worked again, and in 2017, she was cleared by her oncology team. But three years later, she discovered a painful lump on her leg that made it difficult to walk. She underwent an MRI, which told doctors that Osborne had cancer once again \u2014 but they also found a mass in her pelvic region. After giving her a pregnancy test, Osborne also found out she was expecting another baby.<\/p>\n

“That’s how I found out I was pregnant – I had no idea!” she said. “It was really scary because then I immediately thought I was going to lose my baby. I’d only just found out about her and then I thought I was going to lose her.”<\/p>\n