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This bill would help some Utah cancer patients preserve their fertility
Patients face costly treatments to ensure their ability to have children after life-saving treatments, doctors say.
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rep. Ray Ward, pictured in 2018, sponsored a bill in the 2021 legislative session that would help Medicaid cancer patients access fertility preservation treatments.
| Feb. 12, 2021, 1:00 p.m.
Rep. Ray Ward’s son was in 10th grade when he started to not feel well. One day, Ward said, he felt a lump “the size of a potato” in his son’s abdomen, and a doctor told them that he had cancer.