Childhood Cancer Can Increase Pregnancy Complications
Pregnancy in childhood cancer survivors could be riskier than previously thought. Chances of premature labor, early delivery and hemorrhage are higher in certain cancer cases.
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Sperm Banking Freezing 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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Why Do Cancer Treatments Differ from Person to Person?
Researchers from Australia seem to be one step closer to solving the mystery of why cancer treatments work in one patient but not another.
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Granulosa Cell Tumors of the Ovary: Review of 43 Cases
Granulosa cell tumors are rare tumors that can develop on the ovaries. There are two types of the disease - juvenile and adult.
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How Breast Cancer Affects Fertility
If you've recently been diagnosed with breast cancer and want to have children, learn how it may affect your fertility.
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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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Ovarian Cancer and Pregnancy
When you have ovarian cancer pregnancy is something that should be avoided if at all possible until you have been treated successfully.
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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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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 Pregnancy
What is I am receiving cancer treatments while I am pregnant? Will the treatments effect the fetus?
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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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Am I Able to Get Pregnant After…
In many cases, illness, disease and injury will not affect the ability to become pregnant, but that is not always the case.
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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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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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Ovarian Cancer Treatment
The primary method of ovarian cancer treatment is surgery for all stages
of the cancer. If ovarian cancer is detected early on, surgery may be
the only treatment used to remove the cancer from the ovaries.
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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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ER-Positive Breast Cancer and Controlled Ovarian Stimulation
Patients with ER (estrogen receptor) positive breast cancer may choose
to preserve fertility using cryopreservation. The process included COS
(controlled ovarian stimulation) to harvest eggs for cryopreservation.
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Molar Pregnancy Minus the Chemotherapy
Molar pregnancy, hydatidiform mole or H mole refers to an abnormal
uterine growth where the product of the union of the egg and sperm does
not become a fetus but instead, grape like sacs are formed.
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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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Chemotherapy: A Safe Option During Pregnancy?
As the average age of pregnancy is slowly increasing, so are the rates of pregnant women being diagnosed with various forms of cancer.
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Chemotherapy During Pregnancy: No Developmental Problem Risk
Using chemotherapy during pregnancy for the treatment of cancer comes
with great concern for the health of the fetus. Researchers have
recently completed a study involving a small number of children born
after in-utero exposure to chemotherapy.
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Drug During Chemotherapy Spares Fertility
Approximately 25% of breast cancer patients in the United States are younger than 50. The chemotherapy used to treat breast cancer often causes these young women to experience symptoms of menopause.
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Chemotherapy Has Bigger Impact on Fertility
New research indicates that chemotherapy has a bigger impact on female fertility than many reports reveal. The new research results could give doctors and patients more
appropriate and realistic information on the long-term effects of
chemotherapy on fertility.
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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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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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Fertility Increasingly Possible After Childhood Cancer
Improvements in cancer therapy throughout the years have made chemotherapy and radiation treatments less invasive and less destructive than they were a few decades ago. These therapies attack with a vengeance and often leaves the child infertile.
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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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Patient's Biomarkers for Better Ovarian Cancer Treatment
It is expected that oncologists will someday be able to evaluate a patient’s biomarkers before initiating chemotherapy to determine which forms of treatment are most likely to succeed.
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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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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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