Whenever Kassandra Bacon looks down at her baby son, she has reason to be profoundly thankful for the extraordinarily determined 18-year-old she once was.
For it was that teenage Kassandra who, confronted with the devastating news that only experimental chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant could save her life, somehow had the presence of mind to ask one more question: what could she do to preserve her chance of one day becoming a mother?
There was no time to freeze her eggs: the high-dose chemotherapy needed to start straight away.
‘So I asked: “What else can we do?”’ the now 44-year-old recalls.
The answer
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