What is some advice for a female partner of a man dealing with infertility or the prospect of it?

I would just have a word for the female partners of these men who have been diagnosed with cancer: Please be patient. We as physicians realize that this is not an easy road for your partner, and you’re overlooked in this whole process. You oftentimes are robbed and have your intimate partner removed from you, in more ways than physically being removed to a hospital—the therapies and the diagnostic procedures that patients go through really are disruptive to a couple’s relationship. I would ask that the female partners be patient not only with their husband or their male partner, but also with themselves and understand that with time, things often do get back to normal. From a fertility preservation standpoint, going through some of the maneuvers that we ask you to are necessary to help preserve your ability down the road to achieve a pregnancy.