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5 Questions To Ask Your Doctor

This document presents you with 5 questions to ask your doctor about cancer and fertility prior to starting treatment. These questions are designed to help you evaluate your fertility threat with your doctor so you can work together on determining whether fertility preservation is necessary and what option is best for you. It includes room for you to take notes.

5 Questions To Ask Your Child's Doctor

This document presents you with 5 questions to ask your child's doctor about cancer and fertility prior to starting treatment. These questions are designed to help you evaluate their fertility threat with the doctor so you can all work together on determining whether fertility preservation is necessary and what option is best for your child. It includes room for you to take notes.

5 Questions To Ask Your Partner's Doctor

This document presents you with 5 questions to ask your male or female partner's doctor about cancer and fertility prior to starting treatment. These questions are designed to help you and your partner evaluate their fertility threat with your doctor so you can work together on determining whether fertility preservation is necessary and what option is best for your partner. It includes room for you to take notes.

Female Fertility Options

This chart summarizes female fertility options available prior to and after completing cancer treatment. It has useful information comparing details of the procedures along the lines of success rates, cost, timeframe, and who the option is right for.

Male Fertility Options

This chart summarizes male fertility options available prior to and after completing cancer treatment. It has useful information comparing details of the procedures along the lines of success rates, cost, timeframe, and who the option is right for.

ASCO Recommendations on Fertility Preservation

This article delineates the American Society of Clinical Oncology's recommendations on available fertility preservation methods and related issues in people treated for cancer.

Fertile Hope

This is a brochure for the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, a national leader in the fight against cancer.

Patients' Fact Sheet: Cancer and Fertility Preservation

This is a fact sheet on cancer and fertility preservation developed by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.

Redefining the Possible

This is a brochure on ovarian tissue freezing prior to chemotherapy and radiation therapy by the Center for Reproductive Research at Northwestern University.

Fertility preservation and reproduction in cancer patients

This is a report by the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine on fertility preservation and reproduction in cancer patients.