Cancer carries with it many risks, especially when a woman is pregnant or plans on becoming pregnant.
Cancer and Fertility in Men and Women
The diagnosis of cancer can be devastating, but it's important to know that most men and women can be successfully treated for cancer, live a long life and have children.
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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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Gynecologic and Other Cancer
Every six minutes, an American woman is diagnosed with gynecologic cancer, including cervical, endometrial, ovarian, peritoneal, tubal, vaginal and vulvar cancers.
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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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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: Diagnosis and Staging
Colon cancer can be detected early before any symptoms develop with the
proper screening techniques. At this point, it is easier to cure
colorectal cancer.
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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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Colon Cancer Symptoms
In many cases, colon cancer in women will occur without any symptoms
whatsoever. This is why it is vitally important that women are screened
regularly by their physicians for colorectal cancer, even if no symptoms
are present.
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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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