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Lives in the Balance: Women With Cancer and the Right to Fertility Care

Year: 2013

Type: editorial

Abstract: reproductive risks of cancer treatment and fertility preservation options available pursued assisted reproductive techniques. Moreover, at a time when young patients are forced to confront a life-threatening cancer diagnosis, the opportunity to discuss fertility preservation, related to the future restoration of health, allows patients to feel hopeful about their survival and life after cancer. Withholding available information and existingmedicaltechnologiesfromwomenisindirectoppositiontothegoal ofprotectingpatientautonomy.Educatingoncologiststoaddressfertility concerns and add this skill set to their care of young patients furthers the objective of caring for the whole patient and not the cancer alone. This advanceinoncologicpractice,whichextendstosurvivorshipattheoutset

Source: Journal of Clinical Oncology

DOI: 10.1200/jco.2012.47.5798

Authors: Clarisa R. Gracia, Jacqueline S. Jeruss

Institutions: University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University

Language: English

Topic: Reproductive Biology and Fertility

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Cancer Institute, National Center for Research Resources, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development