Mother Diagnosed with Rare Placenta Cancer after Giving Birth to Twins

Jenna Hinman, 26, from Port Byron, NY, was diagnosed with a rare, pregnancy-related cancer just minutes after giving birth to twin daughters.

The news came at Crouse Hospital in Syracuse on March 3, when Hinman found herself struggling to breathe. In order to ensure safety of the children, doctors delivered Kinleigh and Azlynn via an emergency C-section, according to The New York Daily News.

The infants were placed in the neonatal intensive care unit of the hospital when soon after, Hinman began coughing up blood.

Though the health officials originally thought she had contracted pneumonia, they soon found that she was suffering from a choriocarcinoma-a rare cancer that originates in the placenta and spreads quickly to other regions of the body.

According to the American Cancer Society, this group of rare tumors begin as abnormal growth's inside of the woman's uterus in what would normally develop into the placenta. This malignant form of gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) is much more likely than othertypes of GTD to grow quickly and spread to other organs.

Health officials found that her body was packed with tumors. Following discovery, she was soon placed into a medically-induced coma.

"Her lungs are so involved with tumor that they don't' work," Crouse Hospital oncologist Dr. Wiley Burn said, via cnycentral.com. "And right now they're not working at all."

Her husband, U.S. Army Sgt. Brandon, based at Fort Drum, is working to raise money in cash for her treatments.

If you would like to donate, please visit this "Go Fund Me" page, here.

The medical costs for an ECMO machine that's needed to remove blood from her body, oxygenate it and then pump it back into her body will cost $100,000 a day to run alone, according to The New York Daily News.