Please note: This resource replaces our separate booklets MAC12155 ("Cancer and fertility - information for men") and MAC12156 ("Cancer and fertility - information for women").
This booklet is about how cancer and its treatments can affect your fertility, which is the ability to have children. It is for anyone who needs information on this before, during or after cancer treatment. This information is for you whether you are in a relationship or not and whatever your gender identity or sexual orientation. The booklet gives information about preserving fertility, testing fertility, fertility treatments to start a pregnancy, and other options for becoming a parent.
Keywords: MAC12155, MAC12156, MAC12155_E05_N, MAC12156_E05_N, cancer and fertility, cancer and infertility, cancer and fertility preservation, sperm banking, fertility after cancer treatment, fertility treatment after cancer, IVF, ICSI, IUI, egg collection, freezing eggs, freezing embryos, freezing ovarian tissue