What can be done for someone who is in the middle of or has already completed cancer treatment?
- What are the specific options for a man already in treatment?
- What symptoms and side effects can be expected from cancer treatment?
- What is the National Fertility Hotline and how does it help people with cancer and their families?
- Why are fertility preservation options more complicated for women than men?
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Jill Trainer, MSW, LCSW
Patient Navigator, Division of Fertility Preservation
Oncofertility Consortium
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
If a cancer patient has come to me after they have started treatment or after treatment is completed, there might be options for them to have fertility. The first thing to check is, "Has their fertility been affected by their treatment?" So that would be linking them up either with a urologist or a reproductive endocrinologist in order to see where they're at to get a baseline, maybe to check their ovarian function or to do a semen analysis for a male, just to see kind of like what we're working with. And then, from that we can kind of look at what other options there might be such as donor egg or donor sperm or even leading them to adoption.
