Offspring despite cancer treatment?
(RAIA / dgk) Thanks to modern treatment methods today, more and more people are cured of cancer. It employs the younger cancer patients, the question whether they could still have offspring. Because three of four cured wish to have children, the magazine reported “Advice from your pharmacy” in its issue 8A.
Cancer can strike any man at any age, with younger but more rare: The mean age of onset is 65 to 67 years. Survive in our 6000 annual sufferers under 35, a malignant tumor. Whether a child’s wish can be realized then, depends on the type of disease, the treatment method and not least of individual factors.
In any case, young couples with their doctor thoroughly discuss their family planning, because chemotherapy and radiation can not only put an end to the proliferating cancer cells but also damage the reproductive organs beyond repair.
In general, a high-dose chemotherapy or radiotherapy, the germ cell damage so severe that the affected can get no more children. That is, for example, usually with a leukemia or lymphoma in the case. Irradiation of the brain can cause the body not producing enough hormones to control the female and male sex hormones. Also often leads to infertility.
Some patients may be able to move in front of a radiation of the pelvis, the ovaries by a small operation out of the radiation field. Afterwards they are placed back in their proper place. However, when the uterus gets affected by irradiation, can be damaged lining of the uterus and prevent pregnancy.
Cancer treatment should speak to a doctor and patient over the issue of children and wish to discuss the risks of therapies, Dr. Michael von Wolff advises the German network for fertility protection measures in chemo-and radiotherapy (www.FertiProtekt.de). In the network of experts have now 35 university hospitals merged. It was founded in 2006 with the aim to optimize therapies known to develop new treatments and medical coverage with a high standard offering in Germany.
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