Cancer Fertility and Me
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  • Cancer & fertility
    • Cancer, fertility and the reproductive system
    • How cancer treatments affect fertility
    • Chemotherapy
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    • Hormone therapy
    • Targeted drug therapies
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  • Fertility preservation
    • Fertility preservation options
    • Summary of fertility preservation options
    • No fertility preservation
    • Egg freezing
    • Embryo freezing
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    • Contraception & family planning
    • Contraception during cancer treatment
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  • Making your decision
    • Making your fertility preservation decision
    • Talking with your fertility care team
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    • Financial costs of fertility preservation
    • Summary of fertility preservation options
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Hormone sensitive

Certain cancers are called hormone sensitive or hormone dependent. Hormone therapy uses drugs that either stop the body producing hormones or prevent hormones from making the cancer cells grow and divide. Cancers that can be hormone sensitive include breast, prostate, womb and kidney cancers.

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Cancer, Fertility and Me – Patient Decision Aid (version 4.0) – this online version was published and last amended in July 2020. Review date July 2021. See update policy.

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Every effort has been made to provide accurate and complete information at the date of publication. However, errors can occur. If you have any questions, please ask your cancer care team and fertility care team for more information. July 2020.

Production of this website was supported by Yorkshire Cancer Research and the University of Edinburgh

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