New approach to fertility preservation offers young cancer patients hope for biological children later in life

For an Alberta father and his then nine-year-old daughter, a new approach to preserving fertility offered a glimmer of hope after their lives were shattered by cancer.The father’s wife and the mother of his daughter died in 2020 at the age of 40, just four months after she was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive type of ovarian cancer that usually kills women when they’re barely out of their teens.