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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Holly Evans

‘I beat cancer – but a postcode lottery of fertility services nearly robbed me of hopes of becoming a mother’

Joanna Young was eventually able to welcome her baby son with an egg donor after being informed she was infertile - (Supplied)

For Joanna Young, the news that doctors had found a rare form of ovarian cancer with just a five to 10 per cent chance of survival was devastating enough.

Little did the 26-year-old know that the treatment to save her life would also rob her of the chance to conceive a child, a prospect that affects tens of thousands of women of reproductive age who are diagnosed with cancer in the UK.

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