You get diagnosed with cancer. The clock starts immediately. If you're of childbearing age, you now have a finite window before chemo or radiation starts, and once treatment begins, your ability to have children later can be gone.
Here's what most people don't know: the average cost of fertility preservation for a woman facing cancer treatment is $14,000. Insurance doesn't cover it. And if you're the primary breadwinner in your household, that bill lands on top of everything else you're already trying to survive.
Livestrong CEO Suzanne Stone on why the organization built a fertility discount network of over 150 clinics nationwide, many in New York, to make sure a cancer diagnosis doesn't also mean giving up the chance to build a family.
This is one of the reasons Livestrong exists: the gaps nobody's filling.
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