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'I froze my eggs before I got chemotherapy'
West Belfast woman Maria Austin, 25, who is a classroom assistant, was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma in January. She feels lucky to have been given time to freeze her eggs before starting chemotherapy in her fight against cancer. "The egg freezing …