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Oncofertility Consortium recognized in The Chronicle of Higher Education


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In a new article in the Chronicle of Higher Education entitled, “As Budgets Tighten, Big Science Gets a New Opportunity to Make It’s Case,” the Oncofertility Consortium is recognized for it’s interdisciplinary approach to basic science, otherwise known as “team science”. As congress threatens to…
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Male Fertility Preservation: More Than Just Sperm Banking

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Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation, In the news, Oncofertility
Tags: infertility, male fertility preservation, sperm, Sperm Banking
Fertility preservation for men is a usually a relatively straightforward process involving the collection of a sperm sample and cryopreserving it for later use. While this procedure works for many individuals, it isn’t an option for everyone, including boys who are too young to produce…
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Chicago’s Children’s Memorial Hospital Expands its Fertility Preservation Program and Performs First Ovarian Harvest

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Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation, General, In the news, National Physicians Cooperative
Tags: ovarian tissue cryopreservation
Children’s Memorial Hospital is expanding its fertility preservation services to its young cancer patients and their families. In February, Marleta Reynolds, MD, Chief of Surgery, and Julian Schink, MD, from Northwestern Memorial Hospital, performed the hospital’s first ovarian harvest on a female patient who is…
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Thoracic Surgical Oncology Nursing and Interdisciplinary Cancer Care

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Categories: Blog, Conferences, Fertility Preservation, General, Meetings, Oncofertility
Tags: Advocate, cancer, Conference, education, Fertility Preservation, Northwestern University
Comprehensive cancer care employs an interdisciplinary approach to providing expert diagnosis, treatment, and support to individuals with cancer. A team of radiologists, surgeons, pathologists, oncologists, fertility specialists, social workers, psychiatrists, support groups and other health care professionals work collaboratively to deliver individual treatment plans to…
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The Need for Cancer Care in Developing Countries

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Categories: Blog, General
Tags: developing countries, Fertility Preservation
The past four decades has seen significant leaps in cancer survival rates…in the United States. However, what are the cancer diagnoses and survival chances for someone born in a developing country? Dr. Mark Agulnik, an assistant professor in Medicine-Hematology/Oncology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of…
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WATCH: Legislative Briefing on Fertility Issues Facing Post Cancer Treatment Patients (California)


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http://www.calchannel.com/channel/viewvideo/2117     On February 14, 2011, California state assembly member Anthony Portantino introduced legislation, AD 428, which would mandate that health insurance plans cover the cost of fertility preservation. The legislation would cover patients in California suffering from conditions whose treatment plans, such as…
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Oncofertility Saturday Academy: Two Graduations in Two Weeks

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Categories: Blog, General, Oncofertility Saturday Academy
Tags: Oncofertility Saturday Academy, Oregon OSA, OSA
The last two weekends saw graduation events from Oncofertility Saturday Academies more than 2,000 miles apart. On February 26, the academy based out of Oregon Health & Science University graduated 10 freshmen through senior high school students. The young men and women in the program…
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New Publication – Secondary follicle growth and oocyte maturation during encapsulated three-dimensional culture in rhesus monkeys: effects of gonadotrophins, oxygen and fetuin


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A new article by members of the Oncofertility Consortium identified conditions to improve non-human primate secondary follicle growth in a three-dimensional alginate matrix. The study, "Secondary follicle growth and oocyte maturation during encapsulated three-dimensional culture in rhesus monkeys: effects of gonadotrophins, oxygen and fetuin," found…
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Youngest Oncofertility Patient Receives Fertility Preservation

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Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation, In the news, National Physicians Cooperative
Tags: Fertility Preservation, ovarian tissue cryopreservation
FAMILY TRAVELS TO RHODE ISLAND FROM OHIO FOR FERTILITY PRESERVATION FOR TWO-YEAR-OLD GIRL Having a child diagnosed with cancer is a parent’s worst nightmare.  But juxtaposing the knowledge that your child may survive, and then may never be able to naturally have children of her…
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True North Treks Hikes Into Cancer Survivorship

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Categories: Blog, General
Tags: Advocate, quality of life
First Trek in Northern Montana Oftentimes young adult cancer survivors are referred to as being “lost in transition” when they finish treatment and enter survivorship. Important life events, milestones, and decisions such as fertility that many of us experience are either significantly interrupted or abandoned…
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Who Makes Fertility Decisions in Pediatric Cancer Patients?

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Categories: Blog, General, Research
Tags: ethics, social science
Young women and men facing cancer treatments are forced to confront not only their cancer diagnosis, but also the potential loss of their fertility. Each individual case and treatment plan may affect fertility differently; however, healthcare providers should inform their patients about fertility preservation options.…
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Fertility Preservation Mandate Reaches California


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  On February 14, 2011, California state assembly member Anthony Portantino introduced legislation, AD 428, which would mandate that health insurance plans cover the cost of fertility preservation. The legislation would cover patients in California suffering from conditions whose treatment plans, such as chemotherapy, could…
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National Growth of Oncofertility Informal Science Education

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Categories: Blog, General, Oncofertility Saturday Academy
Tags: Oncofertility Saturday Academy, Young Womens Leadership
The 2011 senior class of the Oncofertility Saturday Academy This past Saturday, 32 students from the near south side of Chicago were not hanging out at home or at the mall. Instead these juniors and seniors in high school were attending the fifth annual Oncofertility…
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New publication: Oncofertility and the Boundaries of Moral Reflection


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Paul Lauritzen Ph.D., and Andrea Vincini S.J., recently published Oncofertility and the Boundaries of Moral Reflection. The scholarship in Theological Studies reflects on advances in fertility preservation in relation to magisterial teaching. The authors focus specifically on ovarian tissue transplantation (OTT) and argue that this…
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Catholicism and Fertility Preservation – Evolving Together

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Categories: Blog, Research
Tags: religion
Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) first came onto the Vatican’s radar in the early 1950s and by 1956 Pope Pius XII, proclaimed artificial reproduction as unlawful in the Catholic Church, because it produced human lives by separating procreation and normal sexual function.  Fast-forward to Catholic moral teaching…
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