Pregnant with breast cancer at 37: Singapore mum's 'roller coaster' year

Ms Idah Chia (right) with (from left) her husband Clayton Hosanna, son Aidan and baby Noah. PHOTO: LOVE BY WANDER
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SINGAPORE - In June last year, Ms Idah Chia kept feeling a pins-and-needles sensation in a lump on her left breast.

The lump had formed in 2018 after she stopped breastfeeding her son, Aidan. A doctor had treated and tested it, giving her the all-clear by the end of that year.

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