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.