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Macie at 22 weeks gestation before in-utero surgery to remove a 12cm life-threatening rare tumor – occurring in one out of 40,000 births –and at 4 weeks old.

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When a grapefruit-size tumor was discovered during a routine ultrasound, Macie Hope McCartney was given only a 10% chance of survival. In a rare fetal surgery, Texas Children's surgeons opened her mother's uterus and removed the life-threatening tumor then tucked Macie safely back in the womb. She grew for 10 more weeks before being born - healthy.

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