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JOURNAL OF GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY
Volume 25, Issue 2, Pages 148-154Publisher
KOREAN SOC GYNECOLOGY ONCOLOGY & COLPOSCOPY
DOI: 10.3802/jgo.2014.25.2.148
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Cancer center; Fertility preservation; Program
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- Oncofertility Consortium (National Institutes of Health), Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, University of North Carolina, Hettinger Foundation [5TL1CA133837-05]
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Over 150,000 reproductive age individuals face fertility-threatening cancer treatments each year. Improved detection and treatment of cancer in reproductive-age patients have greatly increased the long-term survival and made it possible for these individuals to consider their long-term quality-of-life after cancer including having biologic offspring. Various methods of fertility preservation (FP) are now available for both males and females. In order to maximize FP options available to patients facing imminent gonadotoxic therapies, it is crucial that women have quick access to FP care and that providers expedite FP strategies. The overarching goal of a clinical FP program is to help patients and their physicians consider the impact of treatment on future fertility and facilitate FP efforts in what is often a limited time period before cancer treatment begins.
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