Her pregnancy test was positive, but it was a rare cancer that mimics pregnancy

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“My uterus was filled with what looked like grapes.”

“The placenta itself — for all intents and purposes — has gone into overdrive and it’s diving and growing rapidly by itself and then this placenta can invade and grow into the uterus,” Vargas told TODAY. “Even though they’re called pregnancies because there is an egg and a sperm they’re not going to develop into fetuses the way they would develop in a normal pregnancy.”

“Once a molar pregnancy crosses over into the cancer realm and the potential for it to metastasize and go into other tissue we actually call it gestational trophoblastic neoplasia,” Vargas said. “It literally burned me from the inside out,” Wilhelm said. “My oncologist was like, ‘This is a rare complication we see.’”

“I was miserable. I was sick. I didn’t want to do it but they talked me into it,” she said. “My son helped a lot with it.” Doctors gave Wilhelm intravenous blood thinners. At times, she felt so overwhelmed by her experiences.

 

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