Abstract:Cancer is a relatively infrequent diagnosis in young adults and yet, when it occurs, the medical and psychosocial impact can be profound. Beyond individual mortality, cancer and cancer treatment may threaten or thwart the ability of young survivors to have children. As the field of cancer survivorship has grown, there has been increasing awareness of the risk of infertility after cancer, and research programs and policy initiatives have focused on addressing fertility at diagnosis and developing fertility pres… Show more
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