Gonadal Suppression and Cancer Treatment
Cancer treatments like radiation and chemotherapy can reduce or
eliminate fertility for female patients. Before starting therapy, women
who want to increase the chance of conceiving after treatments are
complete often seek out methods fertility preservation.
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Can Having Children Protect You From Cancer?
The term nulliparous refers to a woman who has never given birth – she has no children. In our fast-moving world, many women choose not to have children until much later in life and some choose to never start a family.
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Cancer and the Insurance Companies
I had four types of insurance when I got sick: traditional major
medical, disability insurance, a supplement hospitalization bridge
policy and cancer insurance.
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Skin Cells Transform to Reproductive Cells
Researchers are constantly looking for ways to help men who’ve undergone
cancer treatment before sperm could be frozen or during the years
before puberty.
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Invasive Ductal Carcinoma – Diagnosis
Invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) sometimes causes a lump within the
breast. This lump is characterized by irregular edges and is hard and
immovable. When compared with a benign breast lump, an invasive ductal
carcinoma lump feels more anchored...
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New Cancer Treatment Protects Ovarian Function
More than 70,000 cancer diagnoses are given each year to patients
between 15 and 39 years old. Many patients are women still in their
reproductive years. The life-saving chemotherapy these women need is the
same chemotherapy that kills off any hopes of natural reproduction.
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Time to Get a Port
A port is used in place of a traditional IV for patients who will have to have IV treatments on a routine basis. This is routine for oncology and hematology patients.
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Pregnancy Cancer on the Rise: Age Not to Blame
With the average age at first pregnancy increasing as life and financial strive pushes everything back, you'd expect there to be some sort of health repercussions. For instance, as women age so do their eggs.
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Oocyte Banking and Cancer Treatment
Oocyte banking is one of the top options for fertility preservation when facing cancer treatments as a woman in her reproductive years. The procedure requires time, which is one of the contributing factors in patient/doctor final decision.
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Research shows that daily vitamins can prevent cancer
"In this large-scale, randomized, placebo-controlled trial among middle-aged and older men, long-term daily multivitamin use had a modest but statistically significant reduction in the primary end point of total cancer after more than a decade of treatment and follow-up."
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Cancer in the Past Doesn’t Cause an Infertile Future
Though it’s true that women who survive cancer in childhood can struggle
with infertility issues, it’s been found that the infertility isn’t
permanent, and in many cases women will eventually become pregnant and
give birth to full-term healthy babies.
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Risk of Prostate Cancer Lower after Circumcision
Researchers in King County, Washington have completed a study that
reveals a possible link between circumcision and prostate cancer risk.
According to the study, men who are circumcised before their first
sexual experience are less likely to develop prostate cancer.
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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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Breastfeeding Reduces Breast Cancer Risk
Breast feeding decreases the risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women with a first-degree relative with breast cancer.
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Could Radiation from Flying Be Unsafe During Pregnancy?
There is no known risk of radiation or cancer from flying during pregnancy.
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Proton Radiotherapy for Pediatric Brain Tumors
Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital across various
hospital departments recently published the results of an 11-year study
on the treatment of pediatric brain tumors with proton radiotherapy
(PRT).
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Gel Application to Reduce Pain During PAP Smear
Insertion of the speculum during a PAP smear examination can be painful
for some women. The fear of this pain may be enough to keep women from
scheduling an annual examination.
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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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Frozen Sperm
Freezing sperm is an option for men who are not yet ready or able to have a child but who want to give themselves the option of doing so in the future.
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Pap Smear
The Pap smear is a procedure used to stain and examine cervical cells for certain changes such as cancer. George Nicholas Papnicolaou lived from 1883 to 1962.
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The Link Between Oral Contraceptives and Prostate Cancer
Researchers have published their findings in BMJ Open linking prostate
cancer with the use of oral contraceptives, such as birth control pills.
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Risk Factors Revealed for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
According to the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, there are
several factors that may increase the risk of having children with a
genetic predisposition to the cancer.
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Radiation Exposure May Affect Testicular Cancer Rates
According to a new preliminary study by the University of Texas MD
Anderson Cancer Center, male infants born to mothers exposed to
radiation in early pregnancy may suffer from increased risk of
testicular cancer later in life.
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Bloom Syndrome
Bloom Syndrome is a rare genetic disorder first recognized and described by Dr. David Bloom. Another name for Bloom Syndrome is Bloom-Torre-Machacek Syndrome.
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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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Painful Endometriosis Best Treated With Excision Surgery
Endometriosis is a common women's health problem and one of the topthree causes of female infertility, yet many women go for years without a diagnosis. Endometriosis is characterized by unnatural growth ofendometrial tissue outside the uterus.
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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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Contraceptive IUD May Halt Endometrial Cancer
Published in the latest issue of Annals of Oncology, is a report by European researchers linking the use of an Intrauterine Device (IUD) with treatment of endometrial cancer.
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Lance Armstrong Says Hello to His Little Miracle
After surviving testicular cancer, Lance Armstrong never thought he would, or could, conceive a baby naturally.
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What Are X-Rays?
X-rays are a form of radiation. This kind of radiation is invisible. X-rays are used to make "pictures" of the bones and organs.
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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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Breast Cancer Survivors Can Breast-Feed After Treatment
Researchers presented a report at the 35th Congress of the European Society for Medical Oncology that may take a few oncologists by surprise.
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