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The New Pro-Choice Movement: Fertility Preservation

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Categories: Advocate, Blog, Cancer, fertility, General
Tags: Advocate, cancer, Fertility Preservation
Fertile Action founder and fertility preservation patient advocate, Alice Crisci, shares her thoughts on the challenges patients face when navigating insurance coverage or lack there of for oncofertility procedures. _______________________________________________________ By Alice Crisci Every day, I struggle with the notion that most Americans diagnosed with cancer…
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True North Treks Supports Young Cancer Survivors in Paddleboarding Classic

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Categories: Advocate, Blog, Cancer, fertility, Oncofertility
Tags: Advocate, AYA, cancer, chicago, infertility, quality of life, True North Treks
The adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivor network is  slowly starting to build steam as more and more people begin to recognize the special needs of this demographic. AYA’s not only face a cancer diagnosis at a young age, but as a result, they…
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Teal Diva Shares Her Story of Cancer, Fertility, and Resilience

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Categories: Advocate, Blog, Cancer, fertility, Fertility Preservation, Oncofertility
Tags: Advocate, cancer, Egg Banking, hysterectomy, infertility, Oncofertility, ovarian cancer, Personal stories, Shannon Routh, Teal Diva
As part of our guest blog series, the Oncofertility Consortium would like to introduce our readers to Shannon Routh, and her organization for young survivors of ovarian and gynecologic cancers, Teal Diva, founded in 2009. Below is a post she wrote about her experience with…
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Oncofertility joins the AAMC Steering Committee on Women in Medicine and Science

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Categories: Advocate, Blog, Education, In the news, Research
Tags: Advocate, education, HAWMC, women
Congratulations are in order for Kate Waimey Timmerman, PhD, who was just named by the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) to the Women in Medicine and Science Steering Committee (GWIMS).  This appointment is an important step for Dr. Timmerman as well as the Oncofertility…
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Fertility Preservation and African American Breast Cancer Patients

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Categories: Advocate, Blog, Cancer, fertility, Fertility Preservation, Oncofertility, Research
Tags: breast cancer, cancer, education, Egg Banking, Embryo Banking, fertility, Fertility Preservation, Gwendolyn Quinn, infertility, Oncofertility, publication, quality of life, Research
As previous studies have shown, women diagnosed with cancer during their reproductive years often do not receive adequate consultation, and sometimes none at all, regarding the fertility risks of cancer or its treatment.  Fertility is a unique survivorship issue that young cancer patients face, which…
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Get EmPOWERed: Life After Cancer for Adolescent & Young Adult Survivors

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Categories: Advocate, Blog, Cancer, Education, Fertility Preservation, Oncofertility
Tags: Advocate, AYA, cancer, Fertility Preservation, Kristin Smith, LaSalle Power Company, patient navigation, Personal stories, quality of life, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
What does empowerment mean to you? Does it mean giving someone the authority or power to do something… because that’s what you’ll find if you look it up?  The word is not a new one – it originated around the 17th century and the meaning…
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Cancer Connections 2012: Treatment for the Mind, Body & Spirit

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Categories: Advocate, Blog, Cancer, Education
Tags: Advocate, cancer, Cancer Connections, education, Northwestern University, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
In 2007, the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern began a program called Cancer Connections. Cancer Connections was a monthly event held for individuals affected by a cancer diagnosis, to learn about services, meet advocacy groups and get the tools needed to manage…
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Increased awareness could save fertility of cancer patients

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Categories: Advocate, Blog, Cancer, fertility, In the news, Oncofertility
Tags: Advocate, Medill, Oncofertility
The Oncofertility Consortium recently hosted a group of masters students from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Over the next few weeks, they will be contributing their perspectives to the Oncofertility Blog. Here is one of their stories. _________________ By Zara Husaini- When…
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Survivors: A New Magazine for Breast Cancer Survivors

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Categories: Advocate, Blog, Cancer, fertility, Fertility Preservation, General, Oncofertility
Tags: Advocate, breast cancer, Breast Cancer Awareness Body Painting Project, cancer, cancer survivorship, Fertility Preservation, Oncofertility, Personal stories, publication, quality of life
As we have covered in past blogs,  young people account for about 10% of all cancer patients.  As science, research and advocacy evolve, more young people are SURVIVING cancer and going on to lead healthy and productive lives. Nonetheless, young cancer survivors are in a…
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John Green’s “Fault in Our Stars” and AYA Cancer in the Media

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Categories: Advocate, Blog, Cancer, fertility
Tags: Advocate, cancer, Fertility Preservation, John Green, Personal stories, publication, quality of life, The Fault in Our Stars
For all those young adult readers out there and even for those who are in no way eligible for that category anymore, John Green has just released his 4th fiction book, The Fault in Our Stars, starring two, young cancer stricken protagonists. Though the topic…
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Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation: Jog for Jill

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Categories: Advocate, Blog, Cancer, In the news, Research
Tags: Advocate, cancer, clinical research, Jog for Jill, lung cancer, Personal stories, quality of life
Those of you in the cancer community may have heard the name Jill Costello before. We first learned about her through her best friend and cancer advocate, Darby Anderson, on an impromptu visit to the Oncofertility Consortium. Jill has been featured on ESPN, written about…
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February is National Cancer Prevention Month

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Categories: Advocate, Blog, Cancer, Education, General
Tags: breast cancer, cancer, cancer screening, education, National Cancer Prevention Month, ovarian cancer, quality of life, Research, skin cancer
Every month there is some sort of health observance serving as a reminder to people that care should be taken with our bodies, our health and our well-being. We’ve only got one shot at this so we better make the most of it, right?!  This…
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Cancer & Fertility Preservation: How I Lost My Uterus and Found My Voice

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Categories: Advocate, Blog, Cancer, Education, fertility, Fertility Preservation, Oncofertility
Tags: Advocate, cancer, cryopreservation, Embryo Banking, Fertility Preservation, infertility, John Hopkins, Michelle Whitlock, ob/gyne, Oncofertility, Personal stories, quality of life, radical vaginal trachelectomy, Surrogacy
A newly released memoir from cancer survivor, Michelle Whitlock, delves into her experiences with HPV, cervical cancer, fertility preservation and love in a book that you will read from start to finish in one sitting. How I Lost My Uterus and Found My Voice is an…
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Cancer Smashers Visit the Woodruff Lab at Northwestern University’s Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center!

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Categories: Advocate, Blog, Cancer, In the news, Oncofertility
Tags: Advocate, cancer, Cancer Smashers, education, Northwestern University, Oncofertility, OSA, Research, Woodruff Lab
In case you haven’t heard about the Cancer Smashers, you must continue reading and get to know this fantastic group of young people banning together to raise money to eradicate cancer. Let me begin by telling you who they are and what they’re all about.…
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The Role of OB/GYN in Comprehensive Cancer Care

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Categories: Advocate, Blog, Cancer, Fertility Preservation, General, Oncofertility, Research
Tags: Advocate, Betty Kong, cancer, clinical research, education, Fertility Preservation, Gynecologist, infertility, Northwestern University, Obstetrician, Oncofertility, patient navigation, publication, Robin Skory, teresa k woodruff, Woodruff Lab
What is the role of an obstetrician/gynecologist in cancer care for young women? When you think about cancer and cancer treatment, most likely you’re thinking of oncology and what line of defense will be taken against the cancer. A new article in Clinical Obstetrics and…
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April 2012: Donate Your Hair to Cancer

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Categories: Advocate, Blog, Cancer, General
Tags: Advocate, American Cancer Society, Beautiful Lengths Campaign, cancer, Locks of Love, Northwestern University, Pantene, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
For many women, temporary hair loss during chemotherapy is a very emotional and difficult experience. Hair loss occurs because chemotherapy targets all rapidly dividing cells—healthy cells as well as cancer cells. Hair follicles contain some of the fastest-growing cells in the body, and as the…
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Maggie Daley’s Legacy in Integrative Cancer Care

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Categories: Advocate, Blog, Cancer, Fertility Preservation, In the news
Tags: Advocate, cancer, clinical research, Fertility Preservation, Maggie Daley, Maggie Daley Center for Women's Cancer Care, Northwestern University, Oncofertility, quality of life, Richard M. Daley
Maggie Daley (center front) with Mayor Richard M. Daley, Ann Lurie, a Northwestern trustee and philanthropist, and Steve Rosen, M.D., director of the Lurie Cancer Center and of Cancer Programs at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Photo by Nathan Mandell The recent passing of Maggie Daley, wife…
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Bright Pink and the Oncofertility Consortium Partner Up for Fertility Preservation

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Categories: Advocate, Blog, Conferences, Fertility Preservation, In the news, Oncofertility
Tags: Advocate, breast cancer, Bright Pink, cancer, cryopreservation, education, Egg Banking, Embryo Banking, Fertility Preservation, oophorectomy, ovarian cancer, Surrogacy, teresa k woodruff
Earlier this year, I blogged about a young woman and volunteer with Bright Pink, Kristin Nelson, who had preventative ovarian removal after she tested positive for BRCA1. BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are a class of genes otherwise known as tumor suppressors,
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Cancer Support Community: Improving the Standard of Care for Breast Cancer Survivors

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Categories: Advocate, Blog, Cancer, General, In the news
Tags: Advocate, breast cancer, Cancer Support Community, education, Gilda's Club, Research, social science, The Wellness Community
The Cancer Support Community (CSC) was formed in 2009 by the the Wellness Community and Gilda’s Club.  Together, they offer both psychological and social support to individuals living with cancer.  CSC is committed to behavioral, psychosocial and survivorship research and training in an effort to…
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Fertile Action and Alice Crisci: Partners in Disseminating Oncofertility Research

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Categories: Advocate, Blog, Cancer, fertility
Tags: Advocate, cancer, Fertility Preservation, Personal stories
The scientists and researchers within the Oncofertility Consortium spend a significant amount of time and effort studying the biological, psychological, and societal aspects of cancer and fertility. Many of the discoveries we make here have the capacity to transform clinical oncology care, reproductive health care…
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