Fertility after cancer treatment
Breast Cancer Treatment February 11th. 2008, 8:10pmSubmitted by The Stupid Cancer Blog
Being a cancer survivor does not significantly decrease the chance of becoming a parent, according to studies that followed cancer survivors who were diagnosed with cancer between the age of 15 and 35. By mid-30s, men had the same chance of becoming a parent as a contemporary who had never been diagnosed with cancer. For women, the odds were slightly lower but not enough to rule out motherhood.
Norwegian Radium Hospital and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) researchers attributed the success of young cancer patients going on to become parents later in life to fertility-protecting treatment for young cancer patients adopted in the mid-80s.
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