Fertility and Family Planning

by FORCE (Facing our Risk of Cancer Empowered)

This resource discusses the effects of cancer treatment on fertility and family planning, how pregnancy impacts hereditary cancer risk and options for assisted reproduction. It provides information on fertility consideration for both men and women diagnosed with hereditary cancer (breast, ovarian, pancreatic, prostate, colorectal, endometrial). It lists steps involved in assisted reproductive technology, which include ovulation induction and egg retrieval, egg fertilization, egg and/or embryo freezing, implantation and pregnancy. It also discusses preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD), which is a procedure that allows people who have an inherited mutation linked to cancer to have children who do not have the mutation. Pregnancy after a cancer diagnosis and adoption after cancer are also discussed.

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