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Radiation to Ovaries Increases Risk for Stillbirth: A Potential Use for Ovarian Tissue Cryopreservation?

By: Oncofertility Admin -
Categories: Blog, General, Research
Tags: cancer, ovarian tissue cryopreservation, publication
Radiation therapy is a tried-and-true method for treating cancers. However, this treatment also causes tissue damage and DNA mutations to the patient. Damage to the sexual organs or DNA mutations within male sperm or female eggs may cause pregnancies to result in miscarriages, stillbirths, or…
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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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Slate Magazine Interviews Teresa Woodruff


Categories: News
A recent article in Slate magazine highlights the lack of scientific and medical research on females. In preparing for the piece, author Melinda Wenner Moyer talked with Teresa Woodruff about this issue and the necessary inclusion of both sexes in research in order to achieve truly personalized…
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Fertility Preservation for Patients with Autoimmune Diseases

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Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation, General
Tags: Fertility Preservation, infertility, Sperm Banking
Patients with cancer and those in need in of stem cell treatments often risk losing their fertility in exchange for a clean bill of health. Fertility preservation options give these patients the ability to have children. Additional patients, such as those with autoimmune diseases, can…
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Bright Pink Visits the Oncofertility Consortium

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Categories: Blog, General
Tags: Advocate, BRCA
This past Monday, Sarah Halberstadt, the National Program Manager for the group Bright Pink came to visit us at the Oncofertility Consortium. Bright Pink is a not-for-profit organization that educates and supports young women who are at high-risk for breast and ovarian cancer. The members…
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Fox News Focus: Baby Born from Ovarian Transplant


Categories: News
The St. Louis affiliate of Fox News told the story of a cancer survivor on a July 15 broadcast. They highlighted a patient who underwent ovarian tissue cryopreservation at the Infertility Center of St. Louis at St. Luke’s Hospital. More than ten years later,  pieces of…
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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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Stem Cell Transplants Increase the Need for Fertility Preservation

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Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation, General
Tags: Fertility Preservation, infertility
The mission of the Oncofertility Consortium is to advance and promote fertility preservation options for cancer patients. However, treatments for diseases besides cancer can also cause infertility. In particular, patients who undergo stem cell transplants can lose reproductive abilities from their treatments. A variety of…
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Huffington Post Cares about Cancer

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Categories: Blog, General, In the news
Tags: advocacy ribbon, cancer
An international collaboration between cancer organizations is launching the International Charter of Rights for Young People with Cancer. This group is leveraging their influence to improve cancer diagnosis and treatment for young people. The Huffington Post recently posted an article on the charter that hopes to…
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Spotlight on Oncofertility in Women’s Health


Categories: News
The magazine, Women’s Health, published an article in their June edition about how “Researchers in the emerging field of oncofertility are making amazing medical advances to help female cancer survivors preserve their ability to have children. So Why aren’t doctors talking about this with their…
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How does Cancer Affect Your Sexuality?

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Categories: Blog, General, Research
Tags: Advocate, clinical research, quality of life
The Oncofertility Consortium advances the reproductive future of cancer patients by maintaining their fertility. However, cancer patients and survivors can also suffer from sexual health problems independent from fertility. Receiving a cancer diagnosis can significantly affect feelings of sexuality, especially in cancers of the sexual…
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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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A Link Between Cancer Survival and Menstrual Period Loss

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Categories: Blog, General, Research
Tags: amenorrhea, cancer, infertility, New England Journal of Medicine
A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine shed some light on the link between chemotherapy and loss of ovarian function. The treatment of cancers, while lifesaving, can cause infertility in both men and women. Cancer therapy reduces fertility by affecting the ovaries. Chemotherapy and…
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Cancer and Health Care Reform

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Categories: Blog, General, In the news
Tags: cancer, insurance, legal
We posted last week on the Cancer Rights Conference in Chicago, Illinois hosted by the Disability Legal Resource Center. The health care reform bill was one of the most discussed topics at the conference. Formally called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the bill…
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I’m Too Young For This! In Support of Young Cancer Patients

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Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation, General
Tags: Advocate, AYA, cancer
In 1995, Matthew Zachary was a typical, yet talented, college student attending Binghamton University in upstate New York. While studying to become a music composer, Zachary was diagnosed with a brain cancer called medulloblastoma. After successfully fighting the cancer, Zachary founded I’m Too Young for This!…
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Sperm Banked Kids: What are the Psychological Implications of Sperm Banking?

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Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation, General
Tags: Donor, Fertility Preservation, infertility, Sperm Banking
A few days ago, I posted a blog on the history and techniques of sperm banking. But what happens to the children born from this method? No studies currently examine the mental health of sperm banked offspring who were raised by their biological fathers. Instead,…
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Techniques in Fertility: Sperm Banking

By: Oncofertility Admin -
Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation, General
Tags: Fertility Preservation, infertility, Sperm Banking, stem cell transplant, Techniques
While much time and energy is spent investigating new techniques in female fertility preservation, the male side of things does not receive much attention. This is primarily because there is one quick and easy way for men to preempt medically induced infertility, that is, sperm…
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New Research Gives Hope to Cancer Patients

By: Oncofertility Admin -
Categories: Blog, General
Tags: ovarian tissue cryopreservation
A recent article from Oncofertility Consortium members Susan Barrett, Lonnie Shea, and Teresa Woodruff, shows that human follicles, which are immature eggs, can be frozen and thawed safely. This breakthrough may give cancer survivors a greater chance at having children. While cancer treatments, such as…
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