In an entire dramatic, unnerving and atypical event, a cancer patient has delivered a healthy baby following a traumatizing chemotherapy treatment for cancer.

Earlier, the lady was diagnosed with cancer while she was expecting her first baby. With the intent of protecting the lady and her unborn, the doctors designed a 1.5-tonne shield during the radiotherapy treatment.

In a surgery that has reserved glittering spots in record books, the doctors pioneered the chemotherapy with help of a 1.5-tonne lead shield specially designed to sheath the baby bump during the course of the arduous treatment sessions.

Her luck and extended efforts employed by doctors finally paid off and Sarah Best is now apparently the first British woman to have a baby following such grueling sessions of radiotherapy and chemotherapy during the course of pregnancy.

Best successfully endured the treatment and was blessed with a baby boy after going into labour minutes which narrowly trailed the chemotherapy sessions and gave birth to Jake. As per doctors, Jake is born a month ahead of expectations, though both mother and child are healthy and flourishing.

Earlier, 30-year-old Best was given the news about her mouth cancer when she was four months pregnant, expecting her first baby. Acting quickly, her doctors eradicated a tumour from her tongue but found that the cancer had extended up to her lymph nodes.

The resident of Warwickshire‘s Leamington Spa, Best was informed that her the cancer could go severe in case she did not went through radiotherapy. During the treatment, the doctors successfully and innovatively secured the unborn by building two 5-cm thick lead shields for encasing her bump during her radiotherapy sessions. Her radiotherapy treatment sessions were scheduled daily and used to be around 20-minute long.

“I was devastated when I was told I had cancer”, Best revealed. “The surgeons managed to remove most of it but they said they saw specks of cancer cells on my lymph nodes”.