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Ethics Of Fertility Treatment
To gain a clearer picture of your fertility options after treatment is completed, consider these questions, or steps:
Step 1: What's your prognosis?
Talk to your doctor about the seriousness of your cancer condition. Is your prognosis relatively good? Do you feel encouraged to become a parent in the future? Or is your prognosis such that you don't want to take added risks?
When you ask your doctor for a general idea of your chances for living beyond breast cancer, this is the range of figures...
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Cost keeps couples from fertility treatment
Money concerns are keeping many couples from seeking fertility treatment, a new study has found, with people foregoing potential therapies and... Read more »
Fertility treatment may mean fewer boys
Fewer boys are born to couples when the babies are conceived through the fertility treatment known as intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), new... Read more »
Mediterranean Diet Boosts Fertility Treatment Success: Study
Doctors in the Netherlands have found that women who eat a diet rich in vegetables, fish, and vegetable oils have a better chance of becoming ... Read more »
Miscarriage treatment won't harm fertility
Approximately 15 percent of pregnancies end during the first three months after conception. While infection rates remain about the same regardless of... Read more »
Radiation Treatment and Fertility
Source: Breastcancer.org
Radiation to the breast has no effect on fertility. Yet if you want to become pregnant after treatment, let your radiation doctor know your plans. If... Read more »
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