Increasing access to fertility care through private foundations.

Objective: To characterize the available support for infertility treatment and populations served by private foundations across the United States.

Design: Web-based cross-sectional survey.

Setting: Not applicable.

Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma survivors' fertility and sexual function-related information needs.

This population-based study assessed information needs related to fertility and sexual function in 250 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma survivors from a Los Angeles Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results cancer registry 2-5 years after diagnosis. Results suggest that many survivors have persistent fertility and sexual concerns 2-5 years after diagnosis, highlighting the importance of oncologists working collaboratively with reproductive endocrinologists to uniformly inform patients about these issues during routine follow-up cancer care visits.

Fertility and risk factors for elevated infertility concern in 10-year hematopoietic cell transplant survivors and case-matched controls.

Purpose: To describe fertility status and the prevalence of and risk factors for elevated infertility concern in 10-year adult cancer survivors who underwent myeloablative stem cell transplant (SCT).

Patients And Methods: Perceived fertility status, conception efforts, and infertility concern were reported before transplant and after 10 years by 120 cancer survivors who received myeloablative SCT and their case-matched controls.

Results: Respondents (including cases and controls) were predominantly white and married.

Health disparities research--a model for conducting research on cancer disparities: characterization and reduction.

The existence of disparities in health has gained national attention. While racial disparities in health have been documented for decades, "health disparities research" has not been described or defined. Health disparities may occur in categories such as racial/ethnic, age, and in geographic categories such as rural/urban, as well as in socioeconomic status.