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Useful contacts

To help you make the right decision for you, below are some useful organisations, websites, forums and guidelines. These might help you to talk with other professionals and women who can provide support and have been through similar experiences to you.


General cancer support

Bloodwise
Tel: 0808 2080 888
www.bloodwise.org.uk

Breast Cancer Care
Helpline: 0808 800 6000
www.breastcancercare.org.uk

Macmillan Cancer Support
Tel: 0808 808 0000
www.macmillan.org.uk

Teenage Cancer Trust
Tel: 020 7612 0370
www.teenagecancertrust.org

Yorkshire Cancer Research
Tel: 01423 501 269
www.yorkshirecancerresearch.org.uk

CLIC Sargent
(Young Lives vs Cancer)
Tel: 0300 330 0803
www. clicsargent.org.uk


Fertility organisations

British Infertility Counselling Association
www.bica.net

Donor Conception Network
www.dcnetwork.org

The Daisy Network
www.daisynetwork.org.uk

Fertility Friends
www.fertilityfriends.co.uk

Fertility Network UK
Tel: 01424 732 361​
www.fertilitynetworkuk.org

Future Fertility Trust
www.futurefertilitytrustuk.org

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
Tel: 020 7291 8200
www.hfea.gov.uk

National Gamete Donation Trust
www.ngdt.co.uk

British Fertility Society
www.britishfertilitysociety.org.uk/

Fertility Preservation UK
britishfertilitysociety.org.uk/special-interest-groups/fertility-preservation-uk/


Adoption and fostering

Adoption UK
Tel: 0844 848 7900
www.adoptionuk.org

Coram
corambaaf.org.uk


Counselling and emotional support

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
Tel: 01455 883 300
https://www.bacp.co.uk
itsgoodtotalk.org.uk

UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
Tel: 020 7014 9955
www.psychotherapy.org.uk

Youth Access
Tel: 020 8772 9900
www.youthaccess.org.uk


Guidelines to deliver services

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
www.nice.org.uk

British Fertility Society
www.britishfertilitysociety.org.uk/

Fertility Preservation UK
britishfertilitysociety.org.uk/special-interest-groups/fertility-preservation-uk/


Guidance

NICE (2013) Fertility problems: assessment
and treatment [CG156]

NICE (2014) Cancer services for children
and young adults: fertility support [QS55]


Pathways

NICE (2016) Cryopreservation to preserve fertility in people diagnosed with cancer

Human Tissue Authority
www.hta.gov.uk

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)
www.hfea.gov.uk