Let's Talk Fertility and Osteosarcoma. **** DON'T MISS this Osteobites.****

Dr. Abha Gupta received her MD at the University of Toronto. She completed her pediatrics residency at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital (New Haven, CT) and Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (Ottawa) before moving back to Toronto to complete her pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship at The Hospital for Sick Children. To complement her training, Dr. Gupta completed a one-year fellowship in Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology focusing on sarcoma at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.

She is currently cross-appointed as a staff oncologist at The Hospital for Sick Children (Solid Tumour Section) and Princess Margaret Cancer Center. She is the Medical Director of the Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Program at Princess Margaret and Medical Director of the Canadian Sarcoma Research and Clinical Collaboration (CanSaRCC).

Our Junior Board members, Kara Skrubis and Valerie Nguyen, will join Dr. Gupta as panelists.

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One thing that sticks out and will forever be ingrained into my memory is the day I brought my daughter home after I was told she had osteosarcoma, After the longest drive home (it wasn't really a long drive but it was for me) I had to tell her what was going on and tell her she has cancer. I wasn't even sure she knew what cancer was. She was 11 years old and when we got home (I was a single dad) I sat her down on the couch and told her I had to tell her something very serious. So then I told her she has cancer. Her reaction was not what I expected. She had only just turned 11, She was sitting on the living room couch and when she heard she immediately put her face in her hand and cried as to hide her face. But what came out of her mouth next I still can't conceive why my little girl at 11 years old reaction would be . She said"
" I will never have children" and wept. I did not expect this! I just thought it was so odd because there were so many other things that could have come of her mouth as an 11 year old girl. I did not quite grasp the implications from what she meant. Did she mean she would not live long enough? Or did she know the chemo could destroy having chances at having children in the future? Or maybe even a 11 year old girl knew the importance of her life and what it means to reproduce and have children. It broke my heart. Cali Died 4 years later. A week before she died someone came to visit us with a newborn baby girl. She was laying on the bed when Cali held her. When the baby was taken away I could see it was hard on her. I still can't imagine or grasp all that she went through.