Pregnancy after successful cancer treatment: what needs to be considered?

Over the last decade, advances in oncology led to improved treatment results and increasing numbers of long-term cancer survivors. Fulfilling the desire to have children is important for many patients after cancer treatment. Consequently, oncologists, gynecologists and obstetricians are seeing more patients who wish to conceive after treatment.

Fertility conservation in breast cancer patients.

Breast cancer is the most common malignant tumor in women. Increasing survival rates after breast cancer, new reproductive techniques and growing interest regarding the quality of life after cancer have brought the possibilities of fertility-preserving treatment to the center of attention of oncologists and affected patients. Many of these women suffer from infertility and premature menopause as a result of chemotherapy.

Fertility preservation in young female lymphoma patients: review of available options and initial experiences with their implementation in clinical routine.

Background: High cure rates in women suffering from Hodgkin's disease or aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma are often achieved at the cost of impaired ovarian function or infertility. Different strategies can be offered to protect fertility. Early experiences with the implementation of a specialised fertility preservation clinic are analysed with the aim to assess the need for and acceptance of the clinic, as well as the delay of treatment caused by the different approaches.

Pregnancy after breast cancer: case report and review of the literature.

Despite breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, women of childbearing age often desire a pregnancy. Since the average age of women giving birth for the first time is increasing, many young patients diagnosed with breast cancer have not started or completed their family planning. Thus, gynecologists and oncologists are confronted more often with the question of childbearing after breast cancer.

ERK-mediated regulation of leukotriene biosynthesis by androgens: a molecular basis for gender differences in inflammation and asthma.

5-Lipoxygenase initiates the biosynthesis of leukotrienes, lipid mediators involved in normal host defense and in inflammatory and allergic disorders. Despite an obvious gender bias in leukotriene-related diseases (e.g.

Intelligent, impedance-regulated, pulsed coagulation in a porcine renal artery model.

Objective: To compare the efficacy of conventional pulsed coagulation (CPC) and newly developed intelligent, impedance-regulated, pulsed coagulation (IPC) in the sealing of porcine renal arteries.

Design: Prospective, randomized experimental study.

Setting: Isolated porcine artery model in an academic research environment.

Differential response of arteries and veins to bipolar vessel sealing: evaluation of a novel reusable device.

Background: A variety of energy-based techniques for arterial and venous vessel ligation have recently been introduced. Using a porcine model we studied the efficacy of the novel reusable BiClamp versus the standard disposable LigaSure bipolar vessel sealing device. We also compared whether arteries respond differently than veins upon sealing.