Overall, 22 percent of couples who attempted conception after treatment of testicular cancer used some form of assisted reproductive technology. The researchers add, "With recent advances in assisted fertility techniques, more testicular cancer survivors may be helped to father children."They say their data should help doctors in counseling "new or prior testicular cancer patients for whom fertility is of major concern." However, the team advises that it is impossible to predict with complete certainly which men will be fertile following treatment, so pretreatment sperm preservation should be offered to all patients.
SOURCE: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, November 2, 2005.
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