The road to parenthood after cancer is filled with many options. Due to the fact that cancer treatments may take a toll on a person’s reproductive system, it is usually recommended that a person who desires to build their family make arrangements before beginning their treatments. Primarily, this is done through fertility preservation, by either banking sperm, testicular tissue, eggs, ovarian tissue or embryos. Once the treatment is complete, one may have to wait for up to two years before trying to build their family. The reason for this is that some types of cancer are notorious for recurring, requiring additional treatments. At the same time, after treatment is done, in this two year window, a person’s fertility may be restored, where a woman may begin to have a regular menstrual period, or a man begin to produce sperm again. So let us look at the different ways cancer survivors can build their families.
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