Category: News

Lorne Cooper, Founder and CEO of Cancer Knowledge Network (CKN), together with the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society (CFAS), is launching a database project which tracks all patients who are referred for oncofertility consultations across Canada.  In early 2014, CKN launched the Oncofertility Referral Network…

Teresa Woodruff was pleased to join Nao Suzuki, Professor St. Marianna University at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Clinical Oncology in Kyoto Japan.  The session on Oncofertility was attended by more than 300 Japanese Oncologists and was featured on the NHK: …

This is a French copy of an article originally posted on Huffington Post by Emily Drak: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/emily-drake/5-things-you-should-know-about…

We are thrilled to learn about advances from our Japanese Global Partners!  Nao Suzuki, MD and his colleagues at St. Marianna University School of Medicine, have recently published their live births from vitrification.  Their article, Successful fertility preservation following ovarian tissue vitrificaiton in patients with…

Gwendolyn Quinn, PhD and her team from Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida have recently published Adoption and Cancer Survivors: Findings From a Learning Activity for Oncology Nurses in Cancer.  In this publication, Quinn outlines the need for a study determining the rate at which…

The Colorado Oncofertility Program has written an article which was published in the most recent volume of Journal of Cancer Survivorship.  The article, “Seamless integration of clinical care and research in an innovative fertility preservation program: the Colorado Oncofertility Program model“, is written by Kiara…

The Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics recently published a report by Oncofertility Consortium® members, Francesca Duncan, PhD, Benjamin Derman, MD, and Teresa K. Woodruff, PhD, entitled “A small field for fertile science: the low visibility of reproductive science in high impact journals”.  This article assesses…

The News Center of the Feinberg School of Medicine released their 2013 Year in Review highlighting the growth and success of the previous year.  A new gentler chemotherapy drug in the form of nanoparticles has been designed by Northwestern Medicine® scientists, including our very own Dr.…

Last week, the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern and the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health Sciences University were designated the first-ever Centers of Excellence in Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology care. According to the Health Care Rights Initiative, which launched the…

Reproductive scientists across the globe have been discussing the news that a group from Japan has just reported the first human birth from previously vitrified ovarian tissue.  The article, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), describes the research by Kawamuraa,…

A new article in the New York Times discusses some new research and clinical advances in oncofertility. The piece, After Cancer, Fertility Is Often Within Reach, discusses some of the new findings in reproductive health survivorship after cancer that were recently announced in the Lancet Oncology. It also…

Today the Endocrine Society announced that Barbara Byrd Keenan will join the team as the new Chief Executive Officer. In a recent press release, the society’s president, Teresa Woodruff, PhD, made the announcement and noted that, “Ms. Keenan will be instrumental in helping the Society…

Daiane Bulgarelli, currently PhD student in the Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brasil, recently received the first prize award from the for her oral presentation at the 27th annual congress of the Sociedade Brasileiro de Reprodução…

Oncofertility awareness increased this week when the Washington Post published an article on the critical subject. The piece, Oncofertility offers new options for young women with cancer who want to have kids, introduces the concept of oncofertility for cancer patients and discusses the need for…

Laxmi Kondapalli, MD, an Assistant Professor, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the University of Colorado, was recently interviewed on How On Earth, a half-hour National Public Radio audio magazine featuring short stories about the recent news in science, plus live interviews and special features. In the…

Congratulations to the Women Survivors Alliance on their first ever National Women’s Survivors Convention – September 22-24, 2013. There are more than 7 million women cancer survivors in the United States who traveled the journey from healthy lives through cancer diagnoses and treatment. But their…

Members of the NIH organized and co-chaired a symposium on Cancer and Pregnancy: Considerations Regarding the Use of Chemotherapy in Arizona this past June at the 53rd annual meeting of the Teratology Society. ONcofertility Consortium member, Laxmi Kondapalli, MD, MSCE, was invited to speak on the panel as an oncofertility…

To help doctors give their patients the best possible care, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) asks its medical experts to develop recommendations for specific areas of cancer care. In 2006, ASCO developed recommendations for fertility preservation for people with cancer. These recommendations were…

Through oncofertility specialists, patients are now being counseled about options available to help maintain fertility prior to cancer treatment. Today, oncologists at the University of Colorado Cancer Center are referring patients of childbearing age to its new Oncofertility Program led by Laxmi Kondapalli, MD, MSCE.…

In 2011, Oncofertility Consortium member, Laxmi Kondapalli, MD, MSCE, started Colorado’s first fertility preservation program for cancer patients at CU School of Medicine. Recently, Dr. Kondapalli was featured in CU’s philanthropy magazine, Creating Futures, at a fundraising event she hosted entitled, Cocktails for a Cure at…

The Oncofertility Consortium is proud to announce that we have reached over 1,000 followers on Twitter! If you have not already, please follow our posts on the popular social media site, www.twitter.com/oncofertility. Not only do we post about cancer and fertility related basic science and…

A new gentler chemotherapy drug in the form of nanoparticles has been designed by Northwestern Medicine® scientists to be less toxic to a young woman’s fertility but tough on cancer. This is the first cancer drug tested while in development for its effect on fertility…

The Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology recently published a report by Oncofertility Consortium members, Kate E. Waimey, PhD, Francesca E. Duncan, PhD, H. Irene Su, MD, Kristin Smith, Harlan Wallach, MFA, Kemi Jona, PhD, Christos Coutifaris, MD, PhD, Clarisa R. Gracia, MD, MSCE, Lonnie D. Shea, PhD, Robert E. Brannigan, MD, R. Jeffrey Chang,…