For young women diagnosed with cancer, the disease is more than life-altering, it also sometimes dashes all hopes and dreams they might have had for the perfect marriage, the perfect career and the perfect foray into motherhood. It might seem impossible to have children after cancer, since treatment often seriously compromises a woman's chance at conceiving, but all hope's not lost. For instance, Hodgkin's survivors can get pregnant, according to a study, and women who've undergone chemo can freeze their eggs for fertilization. And now it's being shown that a drug developed in Australia can give new hope to wannabe mothers. It works by shielding the ovaries from harmful cancer treatments by temporarily shutting them down, so to speak. The drug's been impressing doctors around the world, and honestly, I can't wait to see it hit the market and offer some salvation for young women from the horror that is cancer.
