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Survivor Stories - Trisha Henry Gaffney Becomes a Mother

10/6/2014

At age 19, Trisha Henry Gaffney was diagnosed with embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma.  After undergoing chemotherapy and radiation, she wanted to put her cancer experience behind her. 

While she went annually for check-ups with her primary care doctor, it wasn’t until nearly 12 years after she completed treatment that she visited the Survivor Clinic at the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at the age of 32 years. It was during this visit that she learned that because of the treatments she received she was at high risk for infertility and was referred to a fertility specialist.

Read more about how Trisha was able to become a mother… 


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