Young cancer patients deserve the chance to have families; IVF protections needed - The Nevada Independent

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Young cancer patients deserve the chance to have families; IVF protections needed - The Nevada Independent

Prior to starting chemotherapy, I was asked whether I wanted to be a mother one day.  Having just received a life-altering diagnosis of cancer a week earlier, my potential for motherhood had not been on my mind — especially not with the more acute, pressing matters of impending hair loss, whether I would need to take time off from college and, of course, whether I would even live to have such an opportunity to consider. I was 20 years old. So mu…