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Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women under 40 years, and therefore reproductive age. If during a testicular cancer or cancer of the ovaries or uterus, is thought systematically to lower fertility, nothing is proposed at a breast cancer to preserve ovarian function. But treatments like chemotherapy can induce amenorrhea (no rules) temporary or permanent or worse early menopause irreversible. Hormone therapy proposed for premenopausal women is tamoxifen, which is not held responsible for infertility. It is usually prescribed for 5 years as a contraceptive and even back then the possibility of pregnancy, which obviously poses problems for women close to forty. After treatment there are between 5 and 28% of spontaneous pregnancies is to say the risk is as important and major issue.
Today, when ovarian function is disrupted proposes some solutions:
* The use of egg donation – but legislation in France makes this technique extremely difficult to achieve because the gift is free, and very few women are willing to be donors. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Breast cancer, Cancer, Chemotherapy, Fertility, Treatments, Women, Women under 40 years | 
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