SALT LAKE CITY When Rep. Raymond Ward, R-Bountiful, found out his son had cancer, the last thing on his mind was his son s ability to have children. You re not thinking about that; you re just trying to get through this week and next week and the next week, and hope that your child doesn t die. You don t even know how to plan ahead for those things, he said.
Doctors thought the first treatment would cure Ward s son, but within a month the cancer had returned, and more aggressively this time. His teenage son would end up needing a bone marrow transplant and more aggressive treatment.