After a year of chest pain, Anita Steiner was ultimately diagnosed with mesothelioma. She had surgery to remove some of the cancer from her right lung, and doctors gave her only 12 months to live. Although the news was devastating, Steiner was determined to stay positive and was put on a course of palliative chemotherapy to delay the aggressive disease. The positive attitude paid off when doctors told her she was cleared of cancer.

As Steiner celebrated the great news, she suddenly got another scare. "I was trying to unpack boxes in our new house and I just kept throwing up," she recalls. "I thought I might have come out of remission - it was an awful feeling.” Steiner’s blood test came back positive but not for mesothelioma. She was in fact pregnant, something her and her husband had been trying to do with in vitro fertilization before she got sick.  "This is one miracle, meets a second, meets a third, really," says her oncologist, Ian Haines. "The pregnancy part of this is quite extraordinary, let alone it following chemotherapy for mesothelioma, which put her into remission."

At five months pregnant, Steiner is aware of the risk that her cancer will return. She refuses to think about the negatives but does get tested regularly to be safe.” I don't think it helps to dwell,” she said. “Until I get the results of these tests, I feel stressed, but most of the time I just think about the future and having a child. I want to be with that child as he or she grows up." In addition to preparing for the birth of her child, Steiner is devoting her time to warning others about the dangers associated with asbestos.

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