Breast Cancer Treatment and Fertility

Most women are poorly informed about the issues should be asking your doctor before treatment begins. Young women who still have children and mothers who are planning for more children are advised to talk to your doctor about how cancer can put their fertility at risk.

Chemotherapy may affect your ability to have children. Many well-informed young women choose to freeze their eggs before Chemo starts, but not all women have enough knowledge of how treatment may affect their fertility and the options available to preserve fertility.

during the fertility issues of breast cancer

Most doctors will advise that breast cancer treatment should have priority in relation to fertility. Fortunately, breast cancer does not mean that your dreams become a parent forever doomed. Even the treatment of cancer, as its first priority, you can still increase your chances of becoming a parent.

It is important that the doctor and patient work together on this. If the patient is in relation to the partner relationships must be taken into account as well. Some of the questions that need answers are:

• How important is it to have a baby, for you and your partner?
  
• Do you have an optimistic forecast that allows you to plan for their future as a parent?
  
• Will it be safe for you to be pregnant?
  
• If there is recurrence or survival is limited, the child will have enough caregivers in your absence?
  
• Are you satisfied with the adoption or consider using donor eggs to become a parent?

These are definitely tough questions to answer to anyone, even more so for someone who is already bogged down by heavy emotional toll that cancer can be relieved. However, it is important to answer these questions as you prepare for.

Chemotherapy and fertility

Will the chemotherapy you infertile? Answer to this depends on the age of women and the type of chemotherapy drugs that are koriste.Mlađi you are, the better your chances are that the ovaries will continue to produce fertile eggs, even after treatment. Some chemotherapy drugs, particularly those belonging to the group of alkylating agents, can cause relatively more damage to the ovaries of the other. Talk to your doctor about the type of drugs that will be used to treat cancer.

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If you get a relatively good prognosis from your doctor, you May want to set a fertility specialist about possible options to preserve their fertility.

Here are some Questions You May want to ask your fertility specialist:

• If you freeze your eggs now? What is the procedure involve?
  
• If you also take into account the freezing of some of her ovarian tissue?
  
• Does fertility treatments that would be less risky for you?
  
• What are the financial, medical, emotional and time-wise costs that each of these options include?

If your doctor says it is okay to postpone her chemotherapy, you May want to undergo ovarian stimulation during this time use enough eggs. Also consider how safe fertility drugs. Some hormones in the drug can boost the activity of breast cancer cells and cause it to spread quickly.

With a little soul searching and discussions with their oncologists and fertility specialists, you can come up with a plan to become a parent in the future.