Meghan Holohan is a digital health reporter for TODAY.com and covers patient-centered stories, women’s health, disability and rare diseases.
As a summer camp volunteer in 2022, Molly Smith spent long days in the woods. One day, she suddenly felt tingling in her hands and feet and visited a local emergency room. Doctor thought the then 20-year-old needed to consume more fluids. “They told me it’s probably dehydration, drink a lot of electrolytes,” Smith, 22, tells TODAY.com. “So that’s what I did.” When she returned home in Florida and then back to school at Yale, the pins and needles did not wane.
That’s why doctors recommended Smith undergo chemotherapy as a “preventative measure” to treat any leaked cancer cells. Smith also underwent a second surgery where doctors removed her entire ovary and several lymph nodes to test them for cancer, too. After this procedure doctors diagnosed Smith with Stage 1 cancer. Throughout her treatment, Smith grappled with some tough choices, such as fertility preservation.
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