You’ve been offered a drug that protects you from life-threatening disease, but the side-effects are unbearable. What do you do? This was the dilemma that Carly Gibson faced as she recovered from breast cancer, after a shock diagnosis aged just 29.
Tag: cancer
Sex and Cancer–Breaking the Taboo
Howard’s experience brings home a question many women patients wish their oncologists would ask more often: How’s your sex life? The question would at least open a conversation on what cancer patients and experts say is a neglected area: the sexual fallout of chemotherapy and other cancer treatments.
Some Infertile Men Show Higher Cancer Risk, Study Suggests
Men who are infertile because they produce no sperm may have a higher-than-average risk of developing cancer, a new study finds.
AMA Urges Insurers to Cover Fertility Preservation
If insurers cover costs for reconstruction after a cancer patient has a mastectomy and costs for storing blood in case a cancer patient needs a subsequent transfusion, why shouldn’t they cover expenses for fertility preservation when a young cancer patient requests it?
Young Cancer Patients Urged to Store Sperm
In a vote of confidence for modern cancer treatments, young male patients are being urged to plan for fatherhood before they undergo radiation and chemotherapy.
Hormonal Treatment for Endometrial Cancer Does Not Directly Target the Malignant Cells
Progesterone, a female hormone that can be used as a therapy for endometrial cancer, eliminates tumor cells indirectly by binding to its receptor in stromal or connective tissue cells residing in the tumor microenvironment, according to a study from the G.O. Discovery Lab team and collaborators at UCLA.
Woman Gives Birth Using Dead Man’s Frozen Sperm
A three-week-old baby, will never get to meet her father, who died of cancer six years ago. Neither has her mother ever met the man – she underwent the first artificial insemination in Israel from a deceased man’s sperm. The man’s parents chose the woman to be the mother of their granddaughter.
HPV Causes a Growing Number of Oral Cancers
Health officials say the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus, a known cause of cervical cancer, has surpassed smoking and alcohol use to become the leading cause of head and neck cancers in the U.S., particularly among men.
ASCO Guidelines for Fertility Preservation Affirm Oocyte Preservation
Guidelines for fertility preservation in newly diagnosed cancer patients have been updated to include oocyte preservation as a standard practice rather than an experimental option, according to the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
Bill Would Cover Fertility Care for Seriously Ill
Insurance companies would be required to pay for fertility treatments for patients battling cancer and other serious diseases under a bill advancing through the California Legislature.