About the Cancer, Fertility and Me decision aid website

If you’ve been diagnosed with cancer, you will have a lot on your mind. You’re likely to go through a whole range of feelings and emotions from the point of diagnosis onwards, and you’re likely to have many questions.

Cancer and its treatment may affect fertility and the chances of becoming pregnant in the future.

This information may be new to you. Or you may be aware of this already and wondered whether you’ll still be able to have a family in the future. Whether having children is definitely in your plans, or if it all feels too far away to really know either way, this booklet gives information to help you think about fertility preservation. Fertility preservation treatments are ways of helping girls and young women with cancer have a higher chance of becoming pregnant and having a child in the future after their cancer treatment. We hope this booklet will help you to understand more about fertility preservation. Although the decisions you have are personal and the choices you make are entirely yours, we hope this booklet will support you to know what options are available and help you to make the best decision for you.

“I did feel unsure for some part but when I’d made the decision I was sure that that’s what I wanted to do. And I’m glad I did, it was the right decision to make.”
A 20 year old young woman with lymphoma

This website has information to help you:

• Understand more about how cancer treatments may cause fertility problems in young women.
• Understand more about how young women with cancer can preserve their fertility, before starting cancer treatment.
• Understand which options to preserve fertility may fit best into your life.
• Understand family planning decisions during and after cancer treatment.

This website may be helpful to you if:

You have recently been diagnosed with cancer. You may want to become pregnant and try to have a child in the future after your cancer treatment has been completed. You would like to learn more about fertility preservation treatment You would like more information to help you make a decision about fertility preservation.

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