Woman shares journey of infertility, IVF after cancer [Video]

BRANDON, Fla. — The last full week of April is National Infertility Awareness Week. And it’s something that impacts far more people than most realize. The World Health Organization estimates one in six people are impacted by infertility. 

When Sara Durante took a pregnancy test in 2014, she was so excited. She and her husband were discussing baby names and making plans to decorate the nursery. When she went in for an ultrasound, everything changed. 

“They said, there is no baby, you have ovarian cancer. So it was a double whammy,” Durante said. 

She says she’ll never know if the pregnancy was a false positive. When she had her ultrasound, instead of a fetus, doctors found a 20-centimeter tumor. 

“It was heartbreaking,” she said with a sigh.

Durante underwent chemo. A year later, she resumed her journey to motherhood. In 2019, she reached out to a fertility clinic …