Children of Chemotherapy
No. 29 JANUARY 2018
«I would give my life for my child». How often have we heard a mother say this? But when a woman is pregnant and discovers that she has cancer, these words become real, palpable and atrociously brutal. What do you feel when facing death and also generating a life within you? This is the portrait of five women who faced the unimaginable: Anabela, who let her tumour grow in order to be a mother; Raquel and Liliana, who had chemotherapy during pregnancy; Gintare, who fought to the death for Salvador to be born; and Michelle, one of the first women in the country to become a mother while taking medication for chronic myeloid leukaemia. In «Children of Chemotherapy», life does not always win, but love yes, that always manages to win.
«I would give my life for my child». How often have we heard a mother say this? But when a woman is pregnant and discovers that she has cancer, these words become real, palpable and atrociously brutal. What do you feel when facing death and also generating a life within you? This is the portrait of five women who faced the unimaginable: Anabela, who let her tumour grow in order to be a mother; Raquel and Liliana, who had chemotherapy during pregnancy; Gintare, who fought to the death for Salvador to be born; and Michelle, one of the first women in the country to become a mother while taking medication for chronic myeloid leukaemia. In «Children of Chemotherapy», life does not always win, but love yes, that always manages to win.
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Dimensions
5 × 130 × 20 mm
ISBN
978-989-8863-54-6
Book available only in Portuguese
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