At OC Fertility, we believe that reproductive medicine is revolutionary and a benefit to a significant population in our community.
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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At OC Fertility, we believe that reproductive medicine is revolutionary and a benefit to a significant population in our community.
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A necessary step for many LGBTQIA+ couples is embryo creation — a fertility procedure that allows you to combine sperm and eggs in a lab in order to create a child.
From social media to news outlets there’s been a lot of buzz recently about concerns with Olaplex No. 3 and its link to fertility issues. The exact ingredient in question is called butyl phenyl methylpropionol or lilial for short.
If you’re a trans man who wants a baby, you may consider freezing your eggs. Egg freezing is recommended for all people with ovaries who aren’t yet ready to have children. It may be especially important if you take hormones or get bottom surgery.
As a physician, I understand that each of those characteristics and qualities that makes each culture unique, has the potential to contribute to varying health differences and potentially outcomes when discussing health care treatment.