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The diagnosis of cancer in any form is traumatic, but it is especially devastating for young girls and women who know that the same chemotherapy needed to save their lives is the very thing that can render them infertile. Fortunately, modern medical innovation has made it possible for women to become pregnant after chemotherapy. The […]
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. For those of us who work with infertility, it reminds us of the importance of fertility preservation for women diagnosed with cancer in their child-bearing years. In general, a woman has a 1-in-8 chance of developing breast cancer in her lifetime. Most women are diagnosed in their 50s, 60s […]
We’ve advocated organic foods from the beginning. Ultimately, spraying chemicals designed to kill living things on to foods humans eat has never made a whole lot of sense. Even more important to us as fertility specialists, there are strong correlations between pesticides/herbicides and infertility issues (read, You are What you Eat, But is Your Food […]
Not surprisingly, fertility specialists have to be on their game. We work in a relatively new medical field that is charting a course ever-forward as research and innovative treatments provide answers to long-unanswered questions about human reproduction. Add to that the internet, which has created an environment where patients become colleagues of sorts – often […]
Ovarian cancer only affects about 3% of the female population. Even so, it is the deadliest cancer when it comes to cancers that affect the female reproductive system. Each year, approximately 21,000 women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer and 66% will die from it. Not only that, many of the treatments required to beat […]
As if the news that you have cancer isn’t devastating enough, there is the reality that the most common treatments for cancer, including radiation and chemotherapy, can render you infertile. This is true for both women and men. If you or your spouse are diagnosed with cancer, and plan to start a family in the […]
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