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Symbiosis in Science: Interdisciplinary Research at the Forefront of Medicine

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Categories: Blog, General, Oncofertility, Research
Tags: BRCA
Many Americans have heard of the term “interdisciplinary research” but don’t really understand how that affects them on a daily basis. Interdisciplinary research crosses traditional professional boundaries. Within science, it incorporates researchers from departments as different as physics, psychology, and biology. True interdisciplinary research also…
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Parthe-what? How Parthenotes Could Advance Oncofertility Research

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Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation, Oncofertility, Research
Tags: Fertility Preservation, parthenote
Picture by Alison Kim, PhD Many people have never heard of the term parthenote, the byproduct of a process called parthenogenesis. Parthenogenesis occurs when an egg becomes activated and starts dividing without sperm. While parthenogenesis happens frequently in many plants and vertebrate animals, it is…
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New Research: A Fertile Future for Cancer Fighters

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Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation, General, Oncofertility, Research
Tags: publication
In previous blogs, we discuss some of the currently available techniques in oncofertility, including sperm banking for men and ovarian tissue cryopreservation (OTC) for women. As one of the newer techniques, OTC allows women to have their ovaries removed, cryopreserved, and then reimplanted later. This…
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Preorder New Oncofertility Book on Amazon

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Categories: Blog, General, Oncofertility
Tags: ethics, legal, Oncofertility, social science
In 2007, the first book about Oncofertility discussed many of the scientific and medical advances available to cancer patients wishing to preserve their fertility. Collaborators at the Oncofertility Consortium now examine the humanities and social science aspects of the field in the book Oncofertility: Ethical,…
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Insurance Often Doesn’t Cover Fertility Preservation Costs

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Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation, General, Oncofertility
Tags: Egg Banking, Fertility Preservation, insurance, Sperm Banking
Receiving a cancer diagnosis is traumatizing. Your doctor runs some tests, possibly sends you to a specialist, and then tells you the bad news. Within a few days, you must process this life-changing information, decide on and receive fertility preservation, and start cancer therapy. But…
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Techniques in Fertility: Ovarian Tissue Cryopreservation

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Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation, General, Oncofertility
Tags: Fertility Preservation, Oncofertility, ovarian tissue cryopreservation, Techniques
Over the past decades, advances in fertility, such as in vitro fertilization, also increased reproductive options for female cancer patients. Prior tobeginning chemotherapy and radiation, patients can now freeze down their eggs or embryos to be used after beating the cancer. Unfortunately, these options are…
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BRCA and Babies: The Relationship Between Breast Cancer Genes and Fertility

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Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation, General, Oncofertility
Tags: BRCA, cancer, Fertility Preservation, Oncofertility
In 1990, Mary-Claire King, PhD made a groundbreaking discovery: she identified a gene that was similar in people with inherited forms of breast cancer. She identified this gene by examining families with rare forms of breast cancer, such as those occurring early in life, in…
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Fertility in Male Childhood Cancer Survivors

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Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation, Oncofertility
Tags: Sperm Banking, Testicular Cryopreservation
A recent article published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology used research from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS) to facilitate research on long-term survivors of cancer diagnosed in childhood and adolescence.   Specifically, the authors retrospectively looked at the fertility of male survivors of childhood cancer…
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Congratulations to Dave Look!

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Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation, General, Oncofertility
On April 13, 2010, Dave Look received the Northwestern University Information Technology (NUIT) Customer Champion Award based on his work with the Oncofertility Consortium and Dr. Teresa K. Woodruff.  Dave’s work is pivotal to the Oncofertility Consortium’s success, as he helps to develop and enhance…
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Third Annual Oncofertility Consortium Meeting

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Categories: Blog, Conferences, Fertility Preservation, Meetings, National Physicians Cooperative, Oncofertility
The third annual meeting of the Oncofertility Consortium will be held next week, September 13-15, in Chicago, Illinois. Over 150 participants from the U.S. and abroad will discuss the latest breakthroughs in the science and clinical applications of fertility preservation methods for cancer patients. More…
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Religion and Oncofertility – Medill Covers the Summit

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Categories: Blog, Conferences, Fertility Preservation, In the news, Meetings, Oncofertility
Tags: Conference, ethics, Fertility Preservation, Oncofertility, religion
An article on infertility and religion in the context of Oncofertility came out today on the Medill Reports Web site. In “Reconciling religion and infertility,” Alina Dain uses the discussions from the Second Annual Oncofertility Summit to explain the different points of view various religions…
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Oncofertility in Brazil

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Categories: Blog, In the news, Oncofertility
Tags: Oncofertility
A magazine in Brazil, “Isto É,” highlighted the Oncofertility Consortium’s research in an article entitled “Depois do câncer, a chance de ter filhos: Tratamentos de reproduçaõ assistida permitem aos pacientes realizar o sonho da gravidez” (A chance at having children after cancer: Assisted reproductive technologies allow patients…
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The BE WiSE Program Highlighted in the Del Mar Times

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Categories: Blog, In the news, Oncofertility, Oncofertility Saturday Academy
Tags: Oncofertility, Oncofertility Saturday Academy, OSA
The OSA counterpart in San Diego, the Be WiSE (Better Education for Women in Science and Engineering) Young Women in Cancer Research Oncofertility Academy, was highlighted in the Del Mar Times. Twelve young women representing 10 high schools were at the event on July 25 to learn…
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WIRED Magazine’s Article Receives Many Comments

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Categories: Blog, Conferences, Fertility Preservation, General, In the news, Meetings, Oncofertility, Research
Tags: clinical research, ethics, Fertility Preservation, Oncofertility, religion
WIRED magazine ran a story last week based on the research article published in the journal Human Reproduction received many comments. “A Fertility First: Human Egg Cells Grow Up in Lab” written by Hadley Leggett has already gotten 18 comments on the WIRED Web site. People were interested…
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NIH Oncofertility News Release

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Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation, In the news, Oncofertility, Research
Tags: clinical research, Fertility Preservation, Oncofertility, vitro follicle growth
Today the National Institutes of Health published a news released based on an article about Oncofertility research from the journal Human Reproduction “In vitro grown human ovarian follicles from cancer patients support oocyte growth” by Min Xu, Susan Barrett, Erin West-Farrell, Laxmi Kondapalli, Sarah Kiesewetter, Lonnie…
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Second Annual Oncofertility Summit

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Categories: Blog, Conferences, Fertility Preservation, Meetings, Oncofertility, Research
Tags: Conference, humanities and social science, Oncofertility
The Second Annual Oncofertility Summit will take place at Northwestern University, Evanston Campus, from July 22-24, 2009. The theme of this year’s conference is reflections on Oncofertility from the humanities and social sciences. The goal of the conference is to bring together an interdisciplinary pool…
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More About the Oncofertility Summer Research Internships

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Categories: Blog, In the news, Oncofertility
Tags: biology, careers, internships, mentoring, Oncofertility, OSEP, stimulus, students, teachers
The Office of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Partnerships in the School of Education (OSEP) at NU is excited that a second high school biology teacher, David Bain, from Grayslake North High School in Illinois, will also be participating in the Onco internships. We look…
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Introducing Christine Babick Saqui

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Categories: Blog, General, Introductions, Oncofertility
Tags: education, Learning Sciences, marketing, Oncofertility, OSEP, publishing, SESP, STEM
I’m the project director for the Office of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Partnerships (referred to as “OSEP”) in the School of Education and Social Policy (SESP) on Northwestern’s Evanston campus. My MA is in linguistics from Columbia University and my BA is…
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