Cancer: Medical Treatments

(asked on 23rd January 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what support his Department gives to people who want their embryos frozen before the commencement of cancer treatments.


This question was answered on 27th January 2017

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guideline, ‘Fertility: Assessment and treatment for people with fertility problems’, published in February 2013, provides guidance on the National Health Service funded provision of fertility services in England and Wales and also practice guidance for health professionals. It recommends that, at diagnosis, the cancer care team should discuss with their patient the impact of the cancer and its treatment on the patient’s future fertility. Where treatment is planned that could impair the patient’s fertility, an early referral to a fertility specialist should be offered.

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