Abstract

One of the most common malignancy of the gastrointestinal tract is the colorectal cancer. Recently, the incidence of colorectal cancer in young patients is higher and very often these patients are women. These patients can necessitate the use of chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy. For this reason it is very important that physicians discuss about the risks of infertility and methods of fertility preservation before any intervention. In the present case the patient was undergoing to laparoscopic ovarian transposition and oocytes aspiration obtained transvaginally in the same surgical session, avoiding a second surgery. By using combined fertility preservation it is possible to offer the patient different treatments using only one surgical procedure and probably increasing the chance to achieve pregnancy.

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