UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., April 14 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
HERSHEY, Pa. - Keira Woods doesn't know if she wants kids. After all, as a 20-year-old student at Penn State, she's more focused on midterms, her THON activities and what she plans to do over the summer. But as a pediatric cancer survivor, she had to think about the future much earlier than most people. The fertility preservation program at Penn State Health gave her the latitude to ponder motherhood on her own terms.
Woods was diagnosed with double transcript chronic myeloid leukemia at age 12 - a rare genetic variation of a cancer normally seen in adults over 60. After a complex medical journey, she found that her best course of action was...