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2011 Oncofertility Consortium Conference: High School Students Attend First Scientific Meeting

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Categories: Blog, Conferences, Oncofertility Saturday Academy
Tags: Conference, Northwestern University, Oncofertility Saturday Academy
The 2011 Oncofertility Consortium Conference incorporated many new activities and attendees. One new special group of attendees were high school students from the Oncofertility Saturday Academy, the informal science outreach program run by the investigators of the Oncofertility Consortium around the country. A new scientists…
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Documentary Highlights First 5 Years of Oncofertility


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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…
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Penn Med Student Perspective on Oncofertility

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Categories: Blog, Conferences, In the news, Oncofertility, Research
Tags: clinical research, Conference, University of Pennsylvania
Last week, the 2011 Oncofertility Consortium Conference: Priorities for Sustainable Oncofertility Research and Patient Care, was held here in Chicago. One of the more than 150 attendees was a University of Pennsylvania medical school student, Katie Dillon, who works with Clarisa Gracia, MD, MSCE on…
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Upcoming Cancer Rights Conference: Washington DC

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Categories: Blog, Conferences, Fertility Preservation, In the news, Meetings, Oncofertility
Tags: 2011 Cancer Legal Rights Conferences, Advocate, Cancer Legal Resource Center, Conference, education, Fertility Preservation, insurance, legal, Oncofertility
In June this past summer, the Oncofertility Consortium partnered up with the Cancer Legal Resource Center (CLRC) for a one-day conference event kicking off their 2011 Cancer Rights Conference series. It was a great success and provided many attendees with valuable information regarding cancer-related legal…
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Fertility Preservation and Motherhood

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Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation, General, Oncofertility
Tags: fertility, Fertility Preservation, infertility, Lisa Campo-Engelstein, ovarian biology, ovarian tissue cryopreservation, publication, Sarah Rodriguez, Techniques
Motherhood has long been viewed as a valued role for women, regardless of whether or not every woman is a mother or plans on being one. In all fairness, it is a defining role for many women and something that gives their lives added meaning.…
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New Article Highlights Underestimation of Reproductive Impairment after Chemotherapy


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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…
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READ: “Nonmalignant Diseases and Treatments Associated with Primary Ovarian Failure: An Expanded Role for Fertility Preservation”


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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,…
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New publication by Oncofertility Consortium members Sarah Rodriguez, PhD and Lisa Campo-Engelstein, PhD: Conceiving Wholeness: Women, Motherhood, and Ovarian Transplantation, 1902-2004


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Tags: Lisa Campo-Engelstein
Sara Rodriguez, PhD and Lisa Campo Engelstein, PhD explore the idea of wholeness in relation to ovarian transplantation. Historically, scholars have focused on the idea of the recipient taking on the donors identity; however through case studies, the authors argue that ovarian transplantation can actually…
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Fertility Preservation: Childless by Choice

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Categories: Blog, fertility, Fertility Preservation, Oncofertility
Tags: cancer, cryopreservation, Egg Banking, Fertility Preservation, infertility, Oncofertility, ovarian tissue cryopreservation, Personal stories, quality of life, Techniques
We hope that all patients of reproductive age who are diagnosed with cancer have the opportunity to discuss oncofertility with their provider shortly after diagnosis. This conversation should include the options, risks, benefits and various outcomes of available fertility preservation techniques. Oncofertility decisions can have…
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Some Thoughts on Judaism and Fertility after Cancer

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Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation, General, Oncofertility
Tags: cancer, cryopreservation, Judaism, ovarian tissue cryopreservation
Religion and oncofertility strive to maintain an open and mutually beneficial dialogue in order to meet somewhere in the middle.  Oddly enough, science and theology often overlap, albeit outside of the lab, so it’s important to bridge any gaps that may exist in the current…
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Ethical Implications of Investigational Fertility Preservation Research

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Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation, General, Oncofertility
Tags: cancer, clinical research, cryopreservation, Egg Banking, ethics, Fertility Preservation, infertility, Oncofertility, ovarian tissue cryopreservation, Techniques
The goal of oncofertility is to preserve the future fertility of cancer patients and ensure they have reproductive choice after they’ve finished treatment. Not all methods of fertility preservation are considered “established” techniques meaning they are viewed as experimental and must be offered under Institutional…
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SHARE: Support Services for Women Affected By Breast or Ovarian Cancer

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Categories: Blog, General, Oncofertility
Tags: Advocate, BRCA, breast cancer, cancer, education, Fertility Preservation, ovarian cancer
Here at the Oncofertility Consortium Blog, it’s important to us that our readers who may be diagnosed with cancer or know someone that is, have a wealth of resources to tap into for support. A cancer diagnosis often leads to questions and concerns throughout the…
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Fertility Preservation: It’s a Small World After All

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Categories: Blog, fertility, Fertility Preservation, General
Tags: cryopreservation, Fertility Preservation, Northwestern University, Oncofertility, Personal stories, Sperm Banking
Recently I dipped my foot into the real estate market and began looking for a place we could call home. I followed all the steps that most anyone else would: I hooked up with a real estate agent (*Todd), I began scouring all the listings…
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Fertility Preservation for Endangered Species

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Categories: Blog, Conferences, Fertility Preservation, General, Meetings
Tags: Conference, cryopreservation, Endangered
In this blog, Mary Zelinski, PhD continues her reports from the annual meeting of the Society for Cryobiology held in Corvallis, Oregon, July 24-27. In this post, she relay’s the findings of Dr. Pukazhenthi, on the importance of fertility preservation for endangered species. Read the first…
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GiveForward Makes Fertility Preservation Possible

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Categories: Blog, fertility, Fertility Preservation, Oncofertility
Tags: Advocate, Egg Banking, Fertility Preservation, fundraising, GiveForward, infertility, insurance, Oncofertility, Sperm Banking, Surrogacy
It’s not uncommon for people to gift others with money on a birthday, or a graduation, at a wedding, etc.., but what about when people really need it? What about when people are in times of personal crisis?  Statistics show that 60% of all bankruptcies…
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Cancer, Fertility, and the Big “D:” Divorce

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Categories: Blog, fertility, Fertility Preservation, Oncofertility
Tags: divorce, Embryo Banking, ethics, fertility, Fertility Preservation, infertility, legal, Oncofertility, quality of life, social science
Fertility concerns rank high among newly diagnosed cancer patients of reproductive age. There are several options available to patients interested in preserving their fertility before treatment begins. An often selected choice among patients with a spouse or a committed partner is embryo banking. Embryo banking…
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Reports from the 2011 Society for Cryobiology conference

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Categories: Blog, Conferences, Fertility Preservation, General, Meetings
Tags: cryopreservation
A few weeks ago, this blog discussed some of the ins and outs of cryopreservation, or highly specialized freezing of tissues for long-term preservation, in oncofertility. Scientists in this scientific field and members of the Oncofertility Consortium recently attended a meeting on this technology and…
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