A woman from Lancashire who had stage four blood cancer said she is fighting for NHS-funded fertility preservation treatment.<\/p>\n
Mollie Mulheron, 28, said she was unable to freeze her eggs before chemotherapy because her cancer was so aggressive she needed urgent treatment.<\/p>\n
Although she has since recovered and is cancer-free, NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board said it would not fund egg freezing because she does not meet its eligibility criteria.<\/p>\n
Mollie said: “It’s clearly unfair because the funding is there before chemotherapy, so it doesn’t make sense that it’s not available now.”<\/p>\n
Mollie, who lives in Padiham, was travelling in the Galapagos Islands after university when she said she started to feel ill.<\/p>\n
After travelling back home to get checked out, doctors found a melon-sized tumour, which was “crushing my heart and left lung,” Mollie said.<\/p>\n
It took approximately 800 hours of chemotherapy, over 150 days, for Mollie to be cancer-free. <\/p>\n
“It was hell, but I did manage to beat it,” said Mollie, who runs a language academy in Lancashire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman from Lancashire who had stage four blood cancer said she is fighting for NHS-funded fertility preservation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-679362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}