Introduction to Breast Cancer: Causes and Risk Factors
Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women and the second leading cause of cancer related deaths, next to lung cancer.
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Breast Cancer Treatment
Women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer have a number of treatment options. One treatment that is recommended for one patient may not be the best treatment for another patient.
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Cancer Treatments and Infertility
Whether cancer treatments cause infertility depends mostly on whether and where radiation is being directed. Chemotherapy, on the other hand rarely affects fertility long-term.
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Effect of Pregnancy on Cancer Progression
Pregnancy more often than not does not affect cancer progression and it's usually not necessary to stop the pregnancy.
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Cancer and Fertility in Women
Cancer can be a heart breaking thought for the woman who has yet to start a family. With the help of the cancer treatment team and advanced fertility options, motherhood is not out of the question in all cancer cases.
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Cancer Treatments and Pregnancy
What is I am receiving cancer treatments while I am pregnant? Will the treatments effect the fetus?
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Talking About Infertility With the Cancer Team
When facing cancer treatment, the patient needs to being up their concerns about fertility and having children later in life early in the treatment plan. The fact that the patient wants to have children later can affect the treatment choices.
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Cancer Treatments and Fertility
Are some cancer treatments less harmful to fertility than others? Radiation is most harmful to fertility if it is directed towards the reproductive organs, but if it's outside that area then it does not have to affect fertility at all.
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Endometrial Cancer Treatment
The most common treatment options for women with endometrial cancer are
chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormone therapy, and surgery.
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Colon Cancer Treatment
The most common treatment for colon cancer is surgery. In surgery, any
tumors and surrounding areas of healthy bowel will be removed, including
adjacent lymph nodes, if necessary.
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Preserving Fertility Should Become a Priority in Cancer Care
Infertility is one of the most distressing long-term effects of cancer treatments for adolescents and teenagers.
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Stem Cells Provide Fertility Hope for Pre-Pubescent Boys
Cancer treatments like radiation and chemotherapy have advanced
dramatically in the last few decades. Cancer survival rates in children,
teens and adults are higher than ever, but for pre-pubescent boys,
those treatments often leave them infertile.
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Uterine Tissue Grafting and Spontaneous Conception
Cancer treatments, including chemotherapy, often leave women sterile. In Italy, a woman was given the chance to conceive and give birth naturally via ovarian tissue grafting.
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Temozolomide and Gonadal Function in Brain Tumor Patients
Cancer treatments like radiation and chemotherapy are known to reduce or eliminate fertility, but medications can also have a negative impact on gonadal function, sperm production and fertility.
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Cervical Cancer Treatment
Early cervical cancer is often completely cured by removing cancerous tissue in the cervix. There are a number of surgical methods that can be used to remove cancerous tissue.
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Freezing Sperm Before Treatment for Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Men with a Hodgkin's lymphoma who want to have children after cancer treatment stand a better chance of fatherhood if they have their sperm frozen and stored before beginning treatment.
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Promising Pregnancy Outcomes After Childhood Cancer
New research gives hope to countless women who survived childhood cancer and think they cannot have children of their own.
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Cancer Treatment in the Premenopausal Woman
Researchers believe keystone research into ovarian reserve, markers are crucial to the future of reproductive medicine. Thousands of women undergo cancer treatments each year, some of which affects fertility by destroying follicles that play a crucial part in egg maturation and overall fertility.
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Reproductive Breakthrough: Sperm Developed From Cells
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University have developed normal sperm from
mouse cells. The cells were extracted from the testicles of mice.
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Reversing Damaged Eggs Due to Cancer Treatments
Researchers at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, have found a way to reverse the damage done to the immature eggs (oocytes) of female mice exposed to radiation.
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Cancer Now, Babies Later - Advance Planning Pays Off
Women are surviving cancer in rates higher than ever before and many of them long for babies once cancer is history. As a result, women of childbearing years who have cancer can expect to discuss with their oncologist their plans for children
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Regaining Fertility After Cancer Treatments
Not all cancer treatments cause irreversible infertility. The only time a patient will be permanently affected by the treatment is if the eggs are all destroyed (in women) or the stem cells are destroyed (in men).
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Dealing With Cancer During Pregnancy
A woman who is diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy can carry the fetus to term and deliver a healthy infant.
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