INTRODUCTION Fertility counselling for young women newly diagnosed with cancer is an important field of preconceptional counselling. This qualitative, small-scale study explored how young women newly diagnosed with cancer experienced specialized fertility preservation counselling and treatment in the public Danish health care system. METHODS Semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted...

background: recent advances in cancer treatment have resulted in an increased number of cancer survivors. fertility might be impaired by cancer itself or through gonadal damage as a consequence of radio-chemotherapy. damages to reproductive organs are seen in minimally upto 30% of cancer patients. the aim of the present study was evaluate the attitude of iranian oncologists toward fertility pre...

The Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) supports the inclusion all non-experimental infertility treatments as covered benefits in public private health insurance plans. Infertility is a disease reproductive system, treatment should not be considered elective. All women who require gonadotoxic therapies to treat medical conditions such cancer offered option cryo...

In the past few decades, new and more efficient techniques to help solve fertility problems have become widely available throughout the developed world. These techniques include hormonal stimulation, ICSI, gamete intra-Fallopian transfer (GIFT) and IVF, and their cost is, on average, considerable. There is substantial initial evidence that the psychological disposition of the parents-to-be infl...