Monday, March 26, 2012

Many young cancer patients don't discuss fertility

A woman undergoes a free mammogram inside Peru's first mobile unit for breast cancer detection, in LimaNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young women with cancer often aren't counseled about the risk of losing their fertility due to treatment or their options for saving their eggs, a new study from California suggests. Researchers found that since the early 1990s, only one in every 25 women diagnosed with cancer at age 40 or younger decided to go through with egg- or embryo-freezing procedures, even though at least half said they'd like to have kids after treatment. "More times than not it's still the patient that is basically saying, 'This is important to me,'" said Dr. ...


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