New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Mother’s courage ‘I BEAT BOWEL CANCER TO HAVE A BABY’

Early childhood education teacher Rachael Ferguson was in the prime of her life, recently married and excited to start a family when prenatal testing led to a terrifying diagnosis – stage four bowel cancer.

“Back then, I had no idea bowel cancer was a possibility. I was only 32 and it was just not on my radar at all,” says Rachael, now 34, who like so many believed she was too young for the aggressive disease.

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