ABSTRACT

A -LJLngela C was a twenty-eight-year old marr ied woman who was approximately twenty-six weeks pregnant. She had sufTered from cancer since she was thirteen years old, but had been in remission for approximately two years before she became pregnant The pregnancy was planned, and she very much looked forward to the birth. Her health seemed reasonably good until about the twenty-fifth week of pregnancy, when she was admitted to George Washington University Hospital, and a tumor was found in her lung.