Since this story is retold via a sympathetic woman, it’s whitewashed of any culpability or detail. It’s impossible to know without more, but I can’t say I ever heard of a woman giving birth at 25w just to get chemo for breast cancer. Surgical is usually very effective, and if she’s a surrogate aged lady then it shouldn’t have progressed that much.

Turbocharged vax tumor growth notwithstanding at least