Abstract

Counseling our young female cancer patients and survivors faced with fertility and pregnancy issues requires specific knowledge and expertise, as well as respect, humility, and compassion. Reproductive choices are extremely personal, and they are especially difficult for a cancer patient and her family at times of great distress and vulnerability. Young women may be weighing their natural desire to maintain their childbearing potential against the need to start cancer treatments; they may wonder about the best timing for conceiving after chemotherapy; they may be troubled by uncertainties of their children’s future if they should experience a recurrence; or they may be exploring alternatives such as adoption.

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