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...
View ArticleFertility Increasingly Possible After Beating Childhood Cancer
Cancer is never good news and it comes with an extra dose of heartache when it’s a child getting the diagnosis. Improvements in cancer therapy throughout the years have made chemotherapy and radiation...
View ArticleCancer Treatment in the Premenopausal Woman and Accelerating Ovarian Age
Researchers at the University of California believe keystone research into ovarian reserve markers is crucial to the future of reproductive medicine. Thousands of women undergo cancer treatments each...
View ArticleCancer 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...
View ArticleFreezing Sperm Before Treatment for Hodgkin's Lymphoma Doubles Chances for...
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, according to a...
View ArticlePreserving 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, but a new paper by Northwestern Medicine reveals that many cancer treatment centers do...
View ArticleGene Manipulation May Someday Overcome Infertility Caused by 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. The research team hopes its...
View ArticleDrug That Puts Ovaries “At Rest” During Chemotherapy Spares Fertility
Approximately 25% of all 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...
View ArticleBiomarker Discovery Could Lead to Better Targeted Ovarian Cancer Treatment
The National Cancer Institute estimated 21,980 women in the United States would be diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2014 (approximately 12.3 per 100,000 women). The institute estimated 14,270 deaths...
View ArticleTreatment-Resistant Ovarian Cancer Cells Fight Back Against Chemotherapy
One of medical science’s biggest mysteries is why cancer treatments work in one patient but not another. Researchers from Australia seem to be one step closer to solving the mystery. Their research...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleFertility Increasingly Possible After Beating Childhood Cancer
Cancer is never good news and it comes with an extra dose of heartache when it’s a child getting the diagnosis. Improvements in cancer therapy throughout the years have made chemotherapy and radiation...
View ArticleCancer Treatment in the Premenopausal Woman and Accelerating Ovarian Age
Researchers at the University of California believe keystone research into ovarian reserve markers is crucial to the future of reproductive medicine. Thousands of women undergo cancer treatments each...
View ArticleCancer 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...
View ArticleFreezing Sperm Before Treatment for Hodgkin's Lymphoma Doubles Chances for...
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, according to a...
View ArticlePreserving 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, but a new paper by Northwestern Medicine reveals that many cancer treatment centers do...
View ArticleGene Manipulation May Someday Overcome Infertility Caused by 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. The research team hopes its...
View ArticleDrug That Puts Ovaries “At Rest” During Chemotherapy Spares Fertility
Approximately 25% of all 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...
View ArticleBiomarker Discovery Could Lead to Better Targeted Ovarian Cancer Treatment
The National Cancer Institute estimated 21,980 women in the United States would be diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2014 (approximately 12.3 per 100,000 women). The institute estimated 14,270 deaths...
View ArticleTreatment-Resistant Ovarian Cancer Cells Fight Back Against Chemotherapy
One of medical science’s biggest mysteries is why cancer treatments work in one patient but not another. Researchers from Australia seem to be one step closer to solving the mystery. Their research...
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