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Thanks for your concern, I really don't have it as bad as most. I had stage 1 testicular cancer (like tom green), and it is essentially curable with 12 weeks of chemo if it comes back. I didn't even think of looking for a handbook, but I found it now and says they allow a leave of absence for up to 12 months which is great. Probably won't every come up, but that makes me feel better. Thanks,

If I had a medical reason that would prevent me from being in school and performing my responsibilities as a TA, how would that work? Would I lose funding? I just got accepted to a program with fellowship the first year, then TA for the next 5 years. It's a PhD program. I am in remission for a type of cancer which is very treatable, there is like a 25% that I will have to get chemotherapy sometime in the next 5 years or so. The treatment takes 3 consecutive months. Does anyone have experience with anything like this and what happens?