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The cancer treatment that means women can still have children

Four days after the birth of her second child, Helen Mayoh, 41, was told she had advanced kidney cancer. But thanks to remarkable immunotherapy treatment she not only recovered but has also had another child. Here Helen describes her life-changing treatment

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