Tucked away in a brick warehouse complex in St. Paul, Minn., frozen in liquid nitrogen, sits Abby Bott's left ovary. Bott was only a college senior when doctors diagnosed her with Stage Ⅲ colorectal cancer in 2009. They told her she needed aggressive chemotherapy and radiation to kill the cancer cells in her softball-sized tumor. However, the lifesaving regimen would also strike Bott's ovaries. She had always wanted children, yet if she survived her cancer, she would likely be infertile.
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