Treatment of Childhood Cancers and Infertility

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Anahad O'Connor, After Cancer, Fertility Worries. New York Times, Sept 24, 2013.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/20 ... hin-reach-for-many/

Quote: Infertility "is particularly common among adults who received pelvic radiation and a class of chemotherapy drugs called alkylating agents. * * * At one time, oncologists rarely worried about the reproductive side effects of treatment because so few pediatric patients survived. But as more children with cancer live into adulthood — death rates have plunged 66 percent since the 1970s — the landscape of fertility has changed. * * * Last month, a large study in The Lancet Oncology found that about two thirds of female survivors who sought out fertility treatments as adults ultimately became pregnant — a rate of success that mirrored the rate among other infertile women.

Note: This is published in Science section today.