Female Fertility and Cancer. Some women can get pregnant naturally after their cancer treatment. If you weren’t able to do fertility preservation prior to cancer treatment and are now having difficulties getting pregnant, there are still options available to you such as fertility drugs or IVF. Fertility after breast cancer treatment. Side effects include damage or destruction of your eggs, going into early menopause and a compromised ability to carry your baby to term. About 23% of women who underwent FP had one or … Facebook Twitter Email Instagram Phone. Fertility and Breast Cancer: What You Need to Know. However, in some cases, chemotherapy is the first step. Rethink Breast Cancer 3,832 views. Fertility after Breast Cancer: Joanna's Story - Duration: 3:31. 3:31. Usually you are referred to a fertility clinic after 1 to 2 years of trying to get pregnant. Often this may involve surgery first, followed by chemotherapy and radiation. Fertility can be impaired in breast cancer patients for various reasons, mainly age at diagnosis, use of gonadotoxic chemotherapy, and duration of endocrine treatment, with the subsequent need to delay pregnancy. According to Dr Benn, all the main breast cancer therapies, especially chemotherapy, do affect fertility. Getting pregnant after breast cancer is safe but there’s no ‘best time’ to do it. About half of reproductive-age women want to become pregnant after completing treatment for breast cancer, but they have a 40%-60% reduced likelihood of becoming pregnant as compared with women in the general population. Pregnancy after breast cancer: Results from a prospective cohort of young women with breast cancer. Fertility and pregnancy after breast cancer Breast. 6. Author information: (1)University of Zagreb School of Medicine, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Petrova 13, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia. Learn how cancer surgery and treatment can affect fertility, ways to help preserve fertility, and possible fertility options available after treatment. Why does breast cancer treatment cause symptoms of menopause? Fertility preservation (FP) appeared successful for women undergoing breast cancer treatment, data from a Swedish cohort showed. Find out how breast cancer might affect your fertility, and how you might preserve your fertility if you’re having treatment. 5. You may feel pressure to go back to work or bounce back to your life before your breast cancer diagnosis. Fertility after breast cancer treatment. Request PDF | Fertility after breast cancer | Breast cancer is the most common tumor in childbearing women. Fertility Preservation & Fertility Options After Cancer Diagnosis. Adjusting to life after breast cancer treatment can be hard. However, you may also have concerns for your future. This is because of the increased risk of early menopause after cancer treatment. You can still become a mom after surviving breast cancer. Your fertility will be affected by some breast cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy or hormone therapy. While many oncologists will advise waiting two years after breast cancer treatment has ended before trying to get pregnant, there is no way to test this, because it would be unethical to ask some women to get pregnant and some to not. Women younger than age 45 years can face several health challenges after treatment for breast cancer, including the possibility of early menopause, sexual problems, and fertility problems. Approximately 30% of women diagnosed in South Africa are younger than 35 years old. The American Cancer Society estimates that the lifetime risk for developing breast cancer today in an American woman is about 12.3% (1 out of 8 women) with a median age of diagnosis of 61 years [1,2].In the Arab region, epidemiological studies show a median age of only 50 years at presentation []. Kasum M(1), Beketić-Orešković L(2), Peddi PF(3), Orešković S(4), Johnson RH(5). Fertility after Breast Cancer: Joanna's Story - Duration: 3:31. Age at Diagnosis. How Cancer Treatment Affects Fertility Some treatments for breast cancer can cause temporary infertility or hinder your ability to get pregnant after treatment ends, according to Breastcancer.org . "If a patient needs only surgery and radiation and no chemotherapy, the treatment will have no impact on future fertility… This raises important and often emotional questions regarding the . Breast cancer (BC) is the most common malignant neoplasm diagnosed in women. Fertility after breast cancer Although most women are diagnosed with breast cancer after menopause, between 6% and 10% of women are diagnosed at age 44 or younger, and many of them still want children.Yet cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation can affect fertility, even sending women into early menopause. 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