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Year: 2009

Young People Living, And Laughing, With Cancer

By: Oncofertility Admin -
Categories: Blog, General
Iva Skoch was 29 when she was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. A recent NPR podcast, “Young People Living, And Laughing, With Cancer,” tells the story of two young women diagnosed with cancer in their twenties, two unique experiences that highlight a few common…
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Addressing fertility in the patient with advanced cancer

By: Candace Tingen -
Categories: Blog, General
A very interesting article was recently published in the Journal of Oncology Practice entitled, “Addressing Fertility in Patients With Advanced Cancer: How the Quality Oncology Practice Initiative Standards and ASCO Guidelines Facilitate Ethical Communication.1 ” The full article can be downloaded here. The article tackles…
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Insurance Coverage for Iatrogenic Infertility

By: Oncofertility Admin -
Categories: Blog, General
Tags: ethics, fertility preservation technology, insurance, Oncofertility, publication
My article, “Including Fertility Preservation Treatment: Consistency and Fairness in Insurance Coverage for Iatrogenic Conditions Resulting from Cancer Treatment,” was recently accepted for publication in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. In the article, I discuss how insurance companies currently cover treatment for iatrogenic conditions resulting…
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HHS Healthbeat: Babies After Cancer

By: Candace Tingen -
Categories: Blog, General
The most recent healthbeat from the US Department of Health and Human Services briefly discussed the topic of survivors of childhood cancer having children. The point made is that these patients had no increased risk of having children with birth defects, though they were at…
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Preimplantation Genetic Testing and Oncofertility

By: Francesca Duncan -
Categories: Blog, General
Francesca Duncan, PhD ——— Applying emerging Assisted Reproductive Techonology (ART) procedures in an Oncology setting may help cancer survivors attain their desire to have a child spared of the very cancer that they themselves battled.  Preimplantation Genetic Testing (PGT) is a prenatal screen performed prior…
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Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Portal Launched

By: Candace Tingen -
Categories: Blog, General
Tags: AYA
From the NCI Cancer bulletin (www.cancer.gov): Image: NCI NCI has launched a new Web portal that provides a single access point to information for adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer patients aged 15 to 39. About 70,000 AYAs are diagnosed with cancer each year in…
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Dr. Teresa Woodruff delivers 2009 Dr. Jacob Probstein Lecture


Categories: News
On November 3, 2009, Dr. Woodruff traveled to St. Louis, MO to deliver the 2009 Dr. Jacob Probstein Lecture to the Washington University School of Medicine’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.  Dr. Woodruff spoke on Fertility Preservation for cancer patients, and the new technologies and…
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Fertile Hope Names Moffitt Cancer Center a Center of Excellence

By: Oncofertility Admin -
Categories: Blog, General
Tampa, FL (Oct. 9, 2009) —  Moffitt Cancer Center will celebrate the honor of being named a center of excellence by Fertile Hope from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Oct. 26 in the Ted & Marty Couch Auditorium at the Vincent A. Stabile Research Building, 12902 Magnolia Drive. Fertile…
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Oncofertility Consortium’s Virtual Grand Rounds- Dr. David Wildt

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Categories: Blog, General
Image: Celsias.com Jessica Hornick —– The Fall 2009 Oncofertility Consortium’s Virtual Grand Rounds hosted Dr. David Wildt of the Center for Species Survival at the Smithsonian National Zoo for his talk entitled “Sex, Wildlife and Intensive Management”.  Joining him in giving this seminar were Dr.…
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Pregnant with Cancer-One woman’s story

By: Candace Tingen -
Categories: Blog, General
Tags: Personal stories
Image: Travis Hugget for CNN.com Writing for parenting.com, Erin Zammett Ruddy wrote an article1 today about her experiences of getting pregnant while being on Gleevac as a way to treat her chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). Her first hand account really sums up many of the…
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It’s safe…right? Possible risks of IVF

By: Miranda Bernhardt -
Categories: Blog, In the news
Tags: Assisted Reproduction, IVF, News
Mouse 2-cell embryo Photo: Miranda Bernhardt The options available to couples facing infertility are increasing, whether or not a cancer diagnosis is involved.  Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), such as in vitro fertilization (IVF), are becoming more and more common, and millions of healthy babies have been…
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UN Taking on Women’s Issues

By: Oncofertility Admin -
Categories: Blog, General
Tyler Wellington ———– A few weeks ago world leaders came together for a meeting at the United Nations building in New York to discuss a whole host of issues facing the global community ranging from the proliferation of nuclear weapons to climate change.  While, weeks later, the…
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Ariella Shikanov, PhD wins IBNAM-Baxter Early Career Award

By: Oncofertility Admin -
Categories: Blog, General
Congratulations to Ariella Shikanov on receiving the IBNAM-Baxter Early Career Award.  She will investigate a combination of natural and synthetic hydrogels and drug delivery technology to maximize ovarian tissue transplantation. The full story can be found here!
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Oncofertility Summer Research Internships

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Categories: Blog, General
Tags: alumni, fellowship, internship, Oncofertility, OSA, Research, summer, teachers, video
Oncofertility Summer Research Experience 2009 With support from the federal stimulus package Northwestern received from the National Cancer Institute, two teachers and two undergraduates gained hands-on experience in a working lab devoted to providing new fertility options for cancer patients! The money allowed Northwestern to…
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Some interesting reads..

By: Oncofertility Admin -
Categories: Blog, General
The following articles in HemOnc Today and the UAB Reporter are good examples of the public awareness beginning to take shape around fertility preservation.  Take a moment to read the articles, and let us know what you think! UAB Reporter Online: Fertility Hopes Don’t Have…
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Building an artificial ovary

By: Oncofertility Admin -
Categories: Blog, General
Rachel Smith ——– The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) has just published a summary of the current oncofertility research in their e-Advances section titled “Building an Artificial Ovary – A New Tool for Understanding Reproductive Biology and Preserving Fertility”. This is a…
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The Economy’s Impact on Women’s Fertility Decisions

By: Candace Tingen -
Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation
Tags: Lisa Campo-Engelstein
By Lisa Campo-Engelstein A recent report  by the Guttmacher Institute (downloadable pdf is here) found that the recession has significant effects on women’s fertility preferences, contraceptive preferences and use, and access to reproductive services. These effects have been especially significant for lower income women. Nearly…
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Third Annual Oncofertility Consortium Conference: Recap

By: Oncofertility Admin -
Categories: Blog, General
The Oncofertility Consortium held its third annual conference this past week (September 13-15) in Chicago, bringing together a diverse group of researchers, basic scientists, clinicians, nurses, social workers, sociologists, economists, and ethicists to share their progress on oncofertility research initiatives as well as brainstorm for…
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