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As we continue to have a presence in the social networking world, we thought it only fitting to launch the Oncofertility Channel on YouTube! Please visit this new and exciting channel to learn more about the Oncofertility Consortium including highlights from this year’s conference.  If…

Researchers at the Oncofertility Consortium are working on a study about cancer-related fertility issues for adults who have had cancer.  They are particularly interested in hearing about how they learned about and feel about fertility implications of cancer and cancer treatment. Cancer survivors who were at…

The White House announced on November 15, 2011 that it was honoring the Women’s Health Science Program (WHSP) with a presidential award. WHSP was founded in 2007 to launch the first Oncofertility Saturday Academy and now encompases three additinal academies in Cardiology, Infectious Diseases, and…

Oncofertility researchers Betty Kong, Robin Skory, and Teresa Woodruff recently highlighted the need to develop communication methods between medical specialists to better care for young women with cancer. The article, Creating a Continuum of Care: Integrating Obstetricians and Gynecologists in the Care of Young Cancer…

Dormant Buds is an association founded based on the ideas of a fertility gynecologist who works at a public hospital.  After contact with dozens of patients who, because of aggressive therapies, lost the ability to have children, the doctor, along with the help of a group…

Videos from the 2011 Oncofertility Consortium Conference are now available online. For those of you who couldn’t join us and for those of you who did, but want to revisit some of the conference highlights, click on the link below. You’ll have an opportunity to…

The Oncofertility Consortium Is proud to annouce the launch of the FIRST Regsitry on fertility and reproductive health for women after cancer. We are recruiting female cancer patients and survivors who are within three years of their cancer diagnosis. Read more about how to participate…

The new and improved Oncofertility Consortium logos are now available online. Clinicians and researchers can now download them to use on brochures, presentations, and more! Download the logos.

The documentary, “A Roadmap for the Future: Inquiry, Discourse, and Innovation in the Oncofertility Consortium,” has been released to the public. The short film first premiered at the Gala dinner of the 2011 Oncofertility Consortium Conference last Monday and includes interviews with clinicians and researchers…

A recent article, “Acute Ovarian Failure Underestimages Age-Specific Reproductive Impairment for Young Women Undergoing Chemotherapy for Cancer,” examined the reproductive impairment rates of young cancer survivors, using participants in the California Cancer Registry who had Hodgkin disease, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, gastrointestinal malignancies, and breast cancer. The…

Jennifer Hirshfeld-Cytron, PhD, Clarisa Gracia, PhD and Teresa K. Woodruff, PhD authored a new article in the Journal of Women’s Health. The Oncofertility Consortium members review several fertility-threatening conditions and treatments and discuss the current established and experimental fertility preservation techniques available.  They argue that awareness,…

Although educational materials provide a potentially effective method to convey critical information, the distribution of educational materials about fertility preservation is undocumented. Oncofertility researchers sought to determine the prevalence of providers’ distribution of fertility preservation materials to patients and to assess physician and practice characteristics…

Karrie Ann Snyder and William Pearse discuss the information gap that still persists between patients and their health care teams in regard to fertility preservation. They argue that strategies need to be developed that will facilitate the integration of best-practice guidelines into clinical care and…

New cryopreservation research published in Human Reproduction indicates advantages in vitrification over slow-freezing on the later ability of ovarian follicles to grow in vitro. The paper, by oncofertility researchers, Alison Ting, Richard Yeoman, Maralee Lawson, and Mary Zelinski at Oregon National Primate Research Center is…

At Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, researchers are testing a compound called sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P), a naturally occurring molecule which has been shown to prevent germ cell death in mice receiving radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Oncofertility Consortium member, Mary Zelinksi, discusses this experimental treatment…

In 2010, members of the oncofertility community joined together discuss the past, present, and future of ovarian tissue research. This meeting resulted in the publication, “Current achievements and future research directions in ovarian tissue culture, in vitro follicle development and transplantation: implications for fertility preservation,”…

On June 23rd, Matt Zachary (I’m Too Young for This), Jonny Imerman (Imerman Angels), and Kathleen Boss (Gilda’s Club) led a discussion entitled, “Survivorship, Advocacy, and Identity in the Cancer Community.” Click below to watch this informative discussion from some of the leaders in the…

Watch the press release from the Endo 2011 Conference with Teresa K. Woodruff revealing the Oncofertility Consortium’s new iPhone App, iSaveFertility. iSave fertility is a free mobile resource for health care providers and their patients to help navigate fertility preservation.

As a patient navigator at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, Kristin Smith guides newly diagnosed cancer patients through a hopeful process – preserving their future ability to have children in the face of life-saving, fertility-threatening treatments. Science in Society spoke…

“While the science of fertility preservation for adolescents with cancer is advancing, the social science research in this area is lacking. Specifically, there are only a small number of studies about the psychological reproductive concerns in the pediatric oncology population. These studies have provided groundbreaking…

A recent supplement of the magazine, Cancer, focuses on the specific needs of young cancer patients in Canada. The articles discuss how to increase outcomes in patients between 18 and 39 who are dealing with cancer. One article, by Hamish B. Wallace MD, FRCP titled…

On May 16th, Richard Anderson, MD, PhD led a discussion entitled, “Female Fertility Preservation in Practice: Where We Are, and How We Got Here.” Click below to watch his fascinating presentation.

Dr Quinn, from the Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute and the University of South Florida, in Tampa, USA, has conducted surveys of oncologists’ referral practices. The interview covers issues such as: How communication between patients and physicians is improving. Why limited access to reproductive…