When Cancer Threatens a Woman’s Fertility

New research out this month from the American Cancer Society and published in the online journal Cancer, finds cancer survivors carry a greater financial burden compared to people without a personal history of cancer. The study involved nationally representative samples of 10,354 cancer survivors and 124,436 individuals without a cancer history.

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The author Emily Lattie, was five weeks pregnant when she was told the lump in her breast was cancer. This is a lovely article discussing the difficulties of fertility preservation for people diagnosed with cancer from a person with firsthand experience.