A US mother who chose to continue carrying her child rather than have cancer treatment to fight a recurring tumour has died just weeks after giving birth.

Elizabeth Joice, 36, gave up everything to be a mother, just for a moment, says her husband, Max.

The New York City resident, known as Liz, was fiercely independent from the very start of her life after the death of her mother and subsequent disappearance of her father, according to the New York Post.

View photos Sister-in-law Judith said Liz will always be remembered as a fighter. Photo: YouTube. More

In September 2010, doctors found some suspicious growths in her lungs.

“The day the doctors called us with the results is also the day I proposed to her,” Max said.

“She said, ‘If it’s terminal, I’m not even going to fight. Let’s travel the world until I keel over.’ ”

“I said, ‘You don’t have the option not to fight’ and proposed to her then,” said Max, who had rushed to the kitchen to produce an engagement ring made of tin foil.

“We got married a month later.”

View photos Max and Elizabeth Joice were married in New York in 2010. Photo: YouTube. More

Joice endured four rounds of chemotherapy and surgery to eradicate her Sarcoma.

She was declared cancer-free for three years but longed to have a baby, despite doctors strongly advising against it.

They told Liz that she would never get pregnant. When she did fall pregnant in 2013, it was something of a miracle.

"I totally blew a gasket," Max told the New York Post.

"They said there was no chance this was happening — and here it was happening."

View photos Elizabeth Joice gave up everything to be a mother, just for a moment, says her husband, Max. Photo: YouTube. More

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