BOSTON (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - A local breast cancer survivor worried that chemotherapy treatments would ruin her dream of having another child.
Rebecca Soulierre was on a family vacation in April 2007 when she first felt a lump in her breast.
?I was just laying on the beach, watching my kids swim and I had a shooting pain in my left breast and I just grabbed it because it hurt so bad, and that?s when I first felt the lump,? says Soulierre.
The 38-year-old says the lump was moveable and it hurt, which in her mind could not have been any reason to really worry.
"All the hallmark symptoms that they tell us to watch out for, for cancer, I had convinced myself that it wasn't any of those,? she tells FOX 25?s Nicole Jacobs.
So at age 33, Rebecca went on with her life as a working mother, but time passed and three months later she received unexpected news she and her husband always hoped to hear. They were having their third child.
Rebecca and her husband thought three was their magic number, but in the back of her mind was that lump. She decided to get tests done and soon an ultrasounds revealed what doctors called, ?something suspicious.?
"I guess I was in denial,? she recalls, ?I said to him, suspicious for what? I still couldn't get it through my head that I could have cancer."
Images and tests would manifest themselves in the worst way.
"Friday, August 31, 2007 at 7:30 at night, Dr. Quinlin called me and said that I had stage 2 breast cancer, and I was 14 weeks pregnant,? says Rebecca.
Soulierre became a part of the one in 3,000 pregnancies that are affected by breast cancer.
Dr. Bob Quinlin of UMass Memorial Medical Center cared for the expected mother who found herself in need of life-saving treatment.
"Chemotherapy, given during the second trimester, I would say is comparatively safe. We use it now, there are some drugs we do not use,? says Dr. Quinlin.
The joy of a new child was quickly dimmed by fear. Rebecca required chemotherapy and a lumpectomy over the course of several months to treat the breast cancer doctors considered aggressive.
Among Rebecca?s darkest days, she had one of her brightest. She gave birth to Reece Everest Soulierre on February 6, five weeks premature.
Reece is now four years old and a living reminder of Rebecca?s fight. The little girl?s parents both believe there is something to that lucky number three.
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