Miracle baby for cancer victim

A woman will give birth to a healthy baby later this month after being threatened with infertility after a diagnosis of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of lymphatic cancer, required chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant. She had an ovary removed for preservation prior to chemotherapy with later hopes to provide fertility via IVF, but later fell pregnant from the remaining ovary.

Source: summary of medical news story as reported by Akron Beacon Journal

Related Disease Topics:

• Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
• Lymphatic cancer
• Pregnant

Article Source Details

About: Miracle baby for cancer victim

Date: 28 August 2005

Source: Akron Beacon Journal

Author: Tracy Wheeler

URL: http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/12499215.htm

Related Medical Topics

This summary article refers to the following medical categories:

• Surgery
• Surgery and in vitro fertilization
• Surgery and ovary removal
• Surgery and oophorectomy
• Cause of infertility
• Cause of lymphatic cancer
• Cause of cancer
• Risk and chemotherapy
• Risk and infertility
• Risk and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
• Risk and lymphatic cancer
• Risk and cancer
• Risk and pregnancy
• Side effects and chemotherapy
• Side effects and infertility
• Side effects and pregnancy
• Side effects and bone marrow transplant
• Diagnosis
• Diagnosis and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
• Diagnosis and lymphatic cancer
• Diagnosis and pregnancy
• Diagnosis and infertility
• Diagnosis and chemotherapy
• Diagnosis and bone marrow transplant
• Diagnosis and fertility preservation

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