Desire for parenthood
One of the objectives of this study was to investigate whether patients maintain their desire for parenthood after cancer treatment. Although results from previous studies suggest that not all patients maintain their desire for parenthood after cancer treatment (27.7 – 71.8%), we found that nearly 90% does 17, 18. Possible explanations may be that we specifically selected the subset of women desiring to maintain reproductive potential and that the majority of women was nulliparous at time of diagnosis. As treatment-induced infertility significantly impairs the quality-of-life in cancer survivors, these results stress the importance of fertility-sparing treatment options in this population 3, 4.