Monday 29 July 2019

How Cancer Treatment affects fertility

Fertility is the ability to have a baby, but you may lose it due to cancer or cancer treatment such as chemotherapy as well. No doubt, cancer treatments are effective to treat cancer, but these also kill essential cells from the body, which are necessary to make eggs and for ovulation as well.

In this condition, you need to visit the IVF centre so that you can meet the IVF doctor for better treatment. He will guide you which type of treatments are harmful to your ovaries and reproductive organs as well. You may experience temporary or permanent infertility due to damage to ovaries.

Risks associated with chemotherapy
 Usually, people do not know how chemotherapy affects reproductive organs and health. Chemotherapy includes high-risk medications such as-:
 • Cyclophosphamide, that is also known as Cytoxan
 • Lomustine
• Ifosfamide
 • Procarbazine
 • Busulfan
• Melphalan.

These all the medications affect your reproductive organs badly, that results in infertility, means you are unable to have kids. In this case, you go through IVF Ludhiana, which includes several types of processes in order to preserve fertility in both sexes.

Preservation of fertility
 Well, chemotherapy and radiation treatments completely damage your tests and ovaries, so you need to preserve fertility in advance. There are some ways to preserve fertility such as-:
 • Egg preservation or freezing
 • Sperm freezing for males
 • Embryo freezing
 • Changes of ovaries
 • Ovarian tissue freezing.

In order to enjoy parenthood, you must go through these options, so that you can simply conceive a baby after cancer treatment.

1 comment:

  1. If your eating behaviour and lifestyle is bad you could leads to infertility problems. In male low sperm quality is the most common reason of infertility problems. At Rana ivf center we have best diagnosis machine to diagnosis and treat such problems.

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