When Stephanie Moisio found out that she had breast cancer at the age of 29, her doctors at the Cleveland Clinic told her that she needed eight rounds of chemotherapy . And while she wanted to make sure to do everything she could to be healthy again, she was also worried how chemotherapy — whose side effects may include early menopause and infertility — might affect her dream to become a mom. “We had talked about wanting to have a family,” Moisio told CBS News. “I think that was our biggest question. We were very concerned that we weren’t going to be ever be able to have children and we wanted kids.” But during her treatment, doctors at the Cleveland Clinic offered Moisio the option of taking goserelin, a hormone-blocking drug that they thought might help prevent chemotherapy’s potential toxic effect. And it worked — nine months after completing the treatment, she found out she was pregnant. “We were ecstatic,” she said. “Couldn’t believe it.” Now, a new study suggests that adding goserelin to a standard chemotherapy regimen in women with early-stage breast cancer may indeed help prevent an onset of early menopause. Not only that, it also appeared to… Read full this story
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