"So I was freaking out." The next day, a specialist diagnosed their daughter not with spina bifida, but with a sacrococcygeal teratoma, a rare fetal tumor that forms from the baby’s tailbone.

Then, they removed the tumor located within the membrane surrounding the heart. After the surgery, both mother and fetus are monitored closely for signs of recovery and to detect any potential ...

“It’s overwhelming.” Fetal heart tumors “are quite rare” says Dr. Jack Rychik, one of the doctors involved in Brailey Valenzuela’s surgery. A pericardial teratoma is a tumor but ...

For decades, Pregnancy Zone Protein (PZP) was known for helping the immune system tolerate a fetus. Now, scientists are discovering that low levelsof PZP in lung tumors are linked to worse ...

“It’s overwhelming.” Fetal heart tumors “are quite rare” says Dr. Jack Rychik, one of the doctors involved in Brailey Valenzuela’s surgery. A pericardial teratoma is a tumor but ...

who didn’t already have a cancer diagnosis and whose results were “discordant”—that is, cases in which the fetus seemed fine, yet the pregnant person’s NIPT results showed a pattern of ...

Fetal surgery (also called in-utero or prenatal ... This type of surgery can help ease a blocked airway or take out a large tumor that was harming your baby.