Abstract
Fertility preservation (FP) is an effort to retain the fertility of cancer patients, and as an emerging discipline, it plays a central role in cancer care. Because of improvement in diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, an increasingly large number of patients are surviving with cancer. FP specialists should make an effort to spread the significance of FP among reproductive women with cancer and provide appropriate education both for associated physicians and for cancer patients who wish to preserve their fertility. Physicians who take part in the initial diagnosis and management of cancer should consider the importance of early referral of young cancer patients to FP specialists and take care of those patients by providing timely information and appropriate counseling. Individualized treatment strategies should be delivered depending on the patient's situation with appropriate team approach.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 46-51 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 Jun |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Fertility preservation research at UZ Brussel is supported by grants from the Research Foundation-Flanders (G.0343.13 to JS), the Flemish Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT/TBM/110680 to JS), and the Belgian Foundation against Cancer (Project HOPE, C69 to JS). Fertility preservation research at Northwestern University is supported by NIH/NICHD U54 grant to TKW. We thank Shuo Xiao for contributing the table to this article and Stacey Tobin for editorial support, and acknowledge the many important contributions to the entire specialty, but because of editorial restrictions, a maximum of 100 references were allowed.
Keywords
- Cancer
- Fertility preservation
- Physicians
- Referral
- Women
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Reproductive Medicine
