Young men with cancer may not have to worry about fertility
December 14, 2008 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Women's Health
When cancer strikes young adults who haven’t yet started their families, many worry about their fertility afterwards. While there are better and more options now, such as banking sperm, there may be the worry of cancer treatments affecting the sperm somehow if young men don’t bank their sperm ahead of time.
A new study from Sweden has found that most men don’t have to worry. Researchers looked at the birth records of almost 2 million children who were born with various birth defects. They then looked to see whether the fathers had been treated for cancer and how the children had been conceived (naturally or through in vitro fertilization – IVF).
What the researchers found was that there was such a small increase in children having defects if their father had had treatment for cancer, that the difference was negligible.
You can read about these encouraging findings in this article, Good News For Young Male Cancer Patients.
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