After an initial refusal, a French court recently granted Mariana Gomez-Turri’s request to use her dead husband’s sperm, which he’d frozen while the two lived in Paris, just before he started chemotherapy.
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No Ovarian Protection in Cancer With GnRH Agonist(2)
After more than 5 years of follow-up, women who received a gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRHa) did not have higher rates of ovarian reserve or pregnancy, as compared with women who received chemotherapy without the GnRHa. Premature ovarian failure had significant associations with patient age, the conditioning regimen for hemopoietic stem cell transplant, and cumulative dose of cyclophosphamide but not the use of a GnRHa, as reported online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Long-term Outcomes of Preventing Premature Menopause During Chemotherapy
Compared with receiving chemotherapy alone, women with breast cancer who also received the hormonal drug triptorelin to achieve ovarian suppression had a higher long-term probability of ovarian function recovery, without a statistically significant difference in pregnancy rate or disease-free survival, according to a study in the December 22/29 issue of JAMA.
Drug Protects Fertility and May Prolong Life in Chemo Treated Mice
A University of Wisconsin-Madison physician and her research team have shown that a heart medication can prevent ovarian damage and improve survival in adolescent mice after chemotherapy. The treatment also increased the number of their healthy offspring.
Hormonal Therapy May Prevent Ovarian Failure and Preserve Fertility in Breast Cancer
Young women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer may be more likely to remain fertile if they also receive hormonal treatment, according to new research presented to the 2015 European Cancer Congress on Monday and published simultaneously in Annals of Oncology.
Biological Clock Ticking? Egg Freezing Now an Option
Reproductive specialists have frozen the eggs of women facing chemotherapy or radiation for decades. But in 2012, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine essentially endorsed the practice as an elective procedure by declaring that egg freezing was no longer considered experimental. Since then, the egg-freezing business has ramped up at fertility centers across the country.
Preparing For a Baby After Cancer
When you learn you have cancer, having children might be the last thing on your mind. But with cancer, time is of the essence. The fertility discussion is necessary to safeguard your fertility before you undergo chemotherapy, radiation or surgery.
Unused Embryos Pose Difficult Issue: What to Do With Them
In storage facilities across the nation, hundreds of thousands of frozen embryos — perhaps a million — are preserved in silver tanks of liquid nitrogen. Some are in storage for cancer patients trying to preserve their chance to have a family after chemotherapy destroys their fertility. But most are leftovers from the booming assisted reproduction industry. And increasingly families, clinics and the courts are facing difficult choices on what to do with them — decisions that involve profound questions about the beginning of life, the definition of family and the technological advances that have opened new reproductive possibilities.
Drug Helps Breast Cancer Patients Avoid Early Menopause
Breast cancer chemotherapy can trigger an unfortunate side effect for some patients — early menopause. But a new study suggests that adding the drug goserelin to chemotherapy cuts the odds of that happening in women with certain early-stage breast cancers.
Checkups: For Cancer Patients Hoping to Start a Family, Cincinnati Fertility Experts Offer Options
For many, starting a family is the ultimate dream. But when a young woman gets a diagnosis of cancer, that dream can be replaced with difficult questions about surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and potential loss of fertility.