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Mother, daughter help women with fertility issues
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Maggie Davis, left, and her mother, Mary Jones, created Team Maggie for a Cure to help women with cancer fund their fertility treatments and egg retrievals. Jones was inspired to establish the organization when Davis underwent fertility treatments before begining cancer treatments. Almost a year after Davis went into remission, her daughter Layleigh was born.
When cancer comes knocking at your door, the last thing on a woman’s mind is how it might affect her reproductive health. But once the shock of the diagnosis has diminished, the effect cancer treatment will have on a woman’s reproductive system is an element to think about when considering treatment options. Chemotherapy is known to drastically reduce a woman’s egg numbers or even make her infertile.