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Fertility Preservation Safe for Young Women with Breast Cancer
December 22, 2020, by NCI Staff
Collecting eggs from a woman and creating fertilized embryos for storage may delay some parts of cancer treatment.
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Common methods of preserving a woman’s fertility before starting breast cancer treatment are safe for young women, according to a large study that tracked Swedish women for more than 2 decades.
About 6% of the women who chose to freeze their embryos, eggs, or ovarian tissue before undergoing treatment for breast cancer died over the 23 years covered by the study. During the same period, 13% of matched women who didn’t undergo fertility preservation died, according to the study results published on November 19 in