An Illinois woman who had her ovaries removed following a cancer treatment has been delivered of a set of identical twins. No, that wasn’t a typographical error. A woman without ovaries just had children again, leaving a lot of people puzzled.
After being diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer at age 34, Shelly Battista, of Arlington Heights, Illinois, discovered a lump while breastfeeding her first-born daughter in 2020, as reported in a press release from Northwestern Medicine’s Center for Fertility and Reproductive Medicine.
Additionally, she was diagnosed with what’s known as a “BRCA1 mutation,” which has the proclivity to lead to an increased risk of “other types of cancer.” Battista opted to have a double mastectomy, in addition to chemotherapy.
Unfortunately, chemotherapy created a condition called “Ovarian insufficiency” where the ovaries stop working before a woman reaches age 40. Battista had her ovaries and fallopian tubes surgically removed as well in order to protect herself from also developing ovarian cancer.
Watch the video below to see what happened and how the impossible became possible in her situation.
