Call for better cancer fertility care for young women (BBC News Online, 21 July 2013)

22 Jul 2013


A study published in Pediatric Blood and Cancer compares teenage women's retrospective experiences of fertility counselling after receiving a cancer diagnosis in the year 2004 with the year 2011 in a single centre in the UK.

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A follow-up article discusses the issues surrounding fertility counselling with a woman diagnosed with cancer at age 32. A report by Macmillan, published last week, also discusses broader issues surrounding the long-term consequences of cancer treatment (report: Cured - but at what cost? (PDF)).


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