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Fertility Notes- a fertility blog with all the news your womb can use

January 20th, 2008

Did Anyone Ever Tell You You Look Just Like…

When we first figured out that baby-making wasn’t in the cards for me, my pediatric oncologist would always remind me that, “with so many advances in science, who knows what will be available to you once you are ready to start a family.”
In those days, 12-year old, optimistic me always assumed that cloning, if anything, […]

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January 11th, 2008

Sperm Banking by Mail for Cancer Patients

You already know that I love the organization called Fertile Hope.
Fertile Hope is a national, nonprofit organization dedicated to providing reproductive information, support and hope to cancer patients and survivors whose medical treatments present the risk of infertility.
Fertile Hope helped me realize that there were options available to me, even though I spent my entire […]

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September 18th, 2007

The Oncofertility Consortium

Sounds like the name of a secret society or a collaboration of sinister characters one might find watching reruns of Alias or the X-Files. It is, in fact, a bold new initiative, funded by the National Institutes of Health, organized by Northwestern University that aims to protect the fertility of women who are undergoing radiation […]

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