The story of a family from Cellino San Marco, in the Brindisi area: pregnancy was not sought but the choice between carrying it forward or undergoing treatment and undergoing forced menopause for 5 years for the woman was overcome with a third way, a mastectomy performed in Genoa

She found out she had breast cancer and soon after that she was pregnant. Manuela Vergari is originally from Cellino San Marco (Brindisi), she is now 40 years old and is Cecilia Vita’s mother. She overcame the tumor, and against all expectations she delivered her daughter to her.

Yes, because when she had to put what was happening to her on the scales – illness on the one hand, pregnancy on the other – she had no self-doubts: “After the first ultrasound in which I heard her heartbeat, I didn’t thought more about cancer – he told Il Secolo XIX – Only to my little girl.