Fertility Preservation Emerging Technologies and Clinical Applicatio
A growing majority of women in the western hemisphere have been delaying initiation of childbearing to later in life. Consequently, more women in their late 30s to early 40s are attempting to get pregnant for the first time than ever before. Since the inc
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Editors Emre Seli, MD Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT, USA [email protected]
Ashok Agarwal, PhD, HCLD (ABB), EMB (ACE) Director Center for Reproductive Medicine Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH, USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-1782-9 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-1783-6 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-1783-6 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011936522 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of going to press, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
Women diagnosed with cancer prior to or during their reproductive period often face both the uncertainty of long-term survival, and the risk of treatment-induced infertility. Treatments for common cancers occurring in younger women often necessitate extirpation of their reproductive organs, radiation therapy, and/or chemotherapy, each of which may partially or completely impair reproductive (and endocrine) function. Fortunately, during the last two decades, cancer survival in the USA has improved. This has resulted in an increased focus on maximizing the quality of life for cancer survivors. Preserving future fertility is a crucial component of the quality of life in prepubertal and reproductive age women. Similarly, cancer can also strike young men, the treatments for which pose comparable risks to future fertility. Thus, clinicians caring for such patients will find this textbook valuable in both counseling and caring for younger women and men with newly diagnosed cancers. However, there is a third group of patients in whom fertility preservation is of increasing relevance, interest, and importance. Women in much of the industrial world have been progressively delaying initiation/completion of chi
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