What your fertility specialist should know about the abnormal smear test In the UK, there is a well-structured screening programme for cervical cancer. As part of the cervical screening programme, women between the ages of 25 and 64 years undergo a cervical smear test every three years. The practice nurse will take a scrape [...]
What Fertility Preservation Options do Men Have before Starting Cancer Treatment? The cancer survival rates nowadays are much better as compared to a decade ago. The survival rates even for childhood cancers are increasing. It is important that patients are aware of their fertility preservation options. If you have not completed your family, then [...]
What fertility preservation options do I have before starting cancer treatment? Recently, fertility specialists and scientists in the UK achieved another milestone. They reported the first successful birth of a healthy baby from the transplanted ovarian tissue in a cancer survivor. The woman had a part of her ovary frozen before starting her cancer [...]
Do Fertility Treatments Increase the Risk of Breast Cancer? In 1978, the first IVF baby was born. Since then millions of babies have been born from fertility treatments worldwide. At first, these treatments were done using the natural cycle approach. As these treatments evolved to improve the success rates, fertility drugs such as stimulation injections [...]
