Breaking down the barriers: a new collaborative model providing fertility care for young cancer patients
Loss of fertility is of great concern to young women who undergo surgery and chemotherapy for cancer. Risk reduction surgery is now offered to those women who have an increased risk of ovarian cancer due to genetic predisposition.
For pre-pubertal girls cryopreservation of ovarian tissue may be the only way to preserve fertility. There has been difficulty in access for patients outside major centres.
A long-standing Fertility Preservation Service has been available in Melbourne. This has now been expanded to provide a nation-wide tissue retrieval and transportation service.
Fertility preservation should be mandatory in cancer care; this new service makes it possible for all young people who need it.
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