“The oncologist looked at me and said, ‘It’s cancer,’” Hart says. “That is where our entire world got turned upside down out of nowhere.”
During one of Bethany Hart’s early examinations while pregnant, she underwent a routine Pap smear and learned the results were abnormal. At the time, the then-30-year-old was about 10 weeks along, and the nurse reassured Hart that she was probably OK.
Hart’s cancer was stage 1. As doctors were trying to plan her treatment, which needed to be aggressive to beat the intensity of the cancer, Hart tragically lost her pregnancy at 19 weeks. “Most cervical cancers don’t have symptoms,” Dr. Meera Ravindranathan, a medical director at OncoHealth, a group that supports people with cancer diagnoses, tells TODAY.com. “Oftentimes when you have symptoms, it’s more advanced cancer.”An unusual discharge
“Some people get a persistent infection in those cells in the cervix, and then the virus sits there long enough to make those cells pre-cancerous,” Ravindranathan says. “If we don’t detect those pre-cancerous cells or the HPV infection by a Pap smear, the pre-cancerous cells then develop into cancer. The one thing to remember, though, is that process takes about 10 to 15 years.”
“Every time I walk past her room, it's just this reminder,” she says. “To lose your daughter, to have to face cancer, to have to face the fact that we’ll never have a biological family all at once — those are three very big life events in and of themselves. But all three of them happening together were extraordinary.”
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