How should one go about making a decision about fertility preservation?
- Jill Trainer explains the emotional aspects of discussing fertility with people who have cancer
- Jill Trainer explains the practical aspects of discussing fertility with people who have cancer
- Jill Trainer talks about how a Patient Navigator facilitates the fertility preservation decision-making process
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Jill Trainer, MSW, LCSW
Patient Navigator, Division of Fertility Preservation
Oncofertility Consortium
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
The best advice that I can give an adult patient who is going through this process is to try to gather as much information as they possibly can from multiple sources. So maybe that is from the Oncofertility Consortium, their oncologist, fertility experts or urology experts, kind of laying out what their options are to them and knowing that there is a time constraint, trying to gather that information as quickly as possible.
