According to a report in the Times of India, a special case of cancer has left doctors surprised.
A 27-year-old mother gave birth to an infant with congenital B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), a rare type of blood cancer, with congenital rubella infection. The mother had been suffering from rubella herself. The baby weighed 3 kgs at the time of birth and had palpable purpuric sports and ecchymotic patches.
What left the doctors in shock was the fact that even before birth, when the baby was only a fetus, it had already contracted ALL.