Cycling champion and testicular cancer survivor Lance Armstrong is going to be a dad again, and this time without any outside help.
In 1996, Lance was diagnosed with an advanced stage of testicular cancer. It had spread throughout his body and was given a grim prognosis. However, the grim ending wasn’t meant to be and Lance lived to become a 7-time Tour de France cycling champion as well as head of his organization, Livestrong.org.
Lance was married when he was sick and after recovery. He and his then-wife Kristin Richards had three children using in vitro fertilization (IVF) because Lance had stored …read more

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 …read more

I came across an interesting Canadian website over the weekend, called Fertile Future.
Their introductory paragraph says:

In 2005, approximately 10,000 Canadians aged 20-44 were diagnosed with cancer. An estimated 80% survived. Thousands of young Canadians every year seek to find a way to preserve their fertility before undergoing potentially sterilizing cancer treatment in order to survive. Fertile Future provides fertility preservation information and supporting services to Canadian cancer patients and their families in and prior to their reproductive years who are facing fertility-risking medical treatment, as well as oncology professionals.

I don’t know much about it, and I’m not flogging this site, …read more