The gift of hope: my personal experience.
SCIENTIFIC EDITOR'S INTRODUCTORY COMMENT: As part of our conference, we began with a panel of cancer survivors recounting their personal stories of cancer, infertility, and paths to parenthood. Lindsay Nohr Beck not only had a cancer treatment that could potentially impair fertility but, in a wonderful example of "turning lemons into lemonade," founded the advocacy group Fertile Hope so that other men and women facing infertility would have a national resource to find information and support. We asked her to share her story with readers of this monograph. For more information, visit www.fertilehope.org or call (888) 994-HOPE.
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Lindsay Nohr
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Fertile Hope, 42 West 24th St., Second Floor, New York, NY 10014, USA. lbeck@fertilehope.org
D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000139:chemically induced*; D011788:Quality of Life; D027724:Reproductive Techniques, Assisted; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*; D014062:Tongue Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000532:radiotherapy*