article_snippet.sent: Dr Giselle Kidson-Gerber added: 'If we were to give chemotherapy without blood transfusion support
article_snippet.sent: Hospital staff were 'distressed' over what were perceived to be two avoidable deaths, as 83 percent of pregnant leukemia sufferers go into remission with treatment.
article_snippet.sent: In a recent  article published in the Internal Medicine Journal about the 2009 case, Dr Kidson-Gerber and her colleague Dr Amber Biscoe wrote: 'Not administering blood products in the 2009 case undoubtedly contributed to the death of mother and foetus. '
article_snippet.sent: a mother was being treated at the Royal Hospital for Women and the Prince of Wale Hospital in Randwick .
highlights_snippet.sent: Over 80 per cent of treated pregnant leukemia sufferers go into remission .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Doctors and staff have described the distressing scene after her baby died and then the woman suffered a fatal stroke and multi-organ failure .