You’ve always dreamed of having your own baby but, medically speaking, that now seems impossible. Either you don’t have a uterus, or you can’t or don’t want to carry a child to term. Gestational surrogacy could make your impossible dream possible.
Why is fertility preservation important for breast cancer patients? It's because breast cancer is one of the more common cancers, with a woman’s lifetime risk of developing it nearing 1 in 8. But there's good news amid this stark reality: Improvement in diagnostic tools (mammogram, MRI , ultrasound) is allowing for early detection, resulting in an increased 5 year survival rate!
Better survival rates is always great news, but this means that the conversations around breast cancer should extend beyond just surviving and into THRIVING (post cancer).
This is where fertility preservation (should) come in:
Because many women are delaying starting a family until later, because breast cancer is more commonly being diagnosed in women of younger ages, and because women are SURVIVING breast cancer, fertility preservation is a pivotal conversation for patients to have with their doctors (or specialists like me) at the START of their diagnosis, not at the completion of their treatment.
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You know you can’t get pregnant on your own, but still you hesitate about moving forward with in vitro fertilization (IVF). You worry, especially, about the process of transferring an embryo to your womb. Will it be painful?
PCOS, or Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, is a condition that often consists of menstrual irregularities (typically absent or sporadic menses), signs of increased androgens (hair growth, acne or hair loss) and the presence of multiple ‘cysts’ on an ovary.
Most cases of female infertility are due to your ovaries not producing or not releasing eggs on a regular basis. Your cycle could be out of sync because you have a hormonal condition, such as Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS), but you are not alone.
You’re young and you either need extra money or you wish to help people who can’t get pregnant by themselves. Either reason for donating eggs is perfectly acceptable. However, not every woman can donate her eggs. How do you find out if you can?
Before you start your IVF cycle, there are many items that must be reviewed and completed in order to optimize a successful cycle, as well as a positive experience for the patient. Here's what you need to know as you're picking a clinic.