Routine prenatal test revealed her ‘hidden cancer.’ A study suggests what doctors should watch for
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A woman got routine bloodwork during her second pregnancy and was shocked when the test results came back: It suggested her baby was healthy, but there was something unusual about her own health.
What should have been one of the most joyous times of Dr. Naseem Khorram’s life turned into one of the most terrifying. The Los Angeles-based nephrologist was getting routine bloodwork during her second pregnancy, standard testing to screen for any chromosome abnormalities in the fetus, such as Down syndrome. Khorram was healthy, and her pregnancy was progressing well. “I thought nothing of it,” she said. She was shocked when the test results came back. They were “atypical for maternal chromosomal DNA variants”: Her baby was healthy, but there was something unusual about her own health. Test results can come back as “atypical” for many reasons, such as noncancerous growths like uterine fibroids. But atypical results can also be associated with a “very high rate” of malignancy, Khorram said. Her obstetrician-gynecologist recommended that she have a full-body MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging, which scans images of the body to check for cancer. “This is one of the most terrifying times of my life that I went through,” said Khorram, now a 36-year-old mother of two young girls.
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