Mothers after the cancer, you can

Having a child, after overcoming a serious illness such as breast cancer, it is now possible. And you can do to safely for mother and child. Even though few women take advantage of the opportunities offered by the latest scientific advances. There are about 2,420 women of childbearing age (between 15 and 49) are each affected by breast cancer in Italy, with cure rates near 90 percent. Approximately one third of them have not yet had a child at the time of diagnosis and provide the opportunity to become mothers is critical to their future quality of life. The chemotherapy often compromise the possibility of a pregnancy because, by reducing the number of follicles in the ovaries, causing an early menopause. Today, however, you can freeze eggs before starting therapy and then proceed to healing has occurred, in vitro fertilization. And new research , the come to the most advanced stage of the trial showed that early menopause can be reduced from 50 to 30 percent thanks to a drug (triptorelin) that puts to rest the ovaries before starting treatment, saving their toxic effects of treatment.

DESIRE TO THINK OF MOTHERHOOD 'BEFORE THE CURE - In Italy it is estimated that 40-70 centodelle for women with breast cancer have fertility problems, mainly due to chemotherapy. In order to preserve the reproductive capacity of the toxic effects of therapies in the future and have the maximum opportunity to have a child, in short, would be advisable, before starting any treatment, all women diagnosed with breast cancer undergoing freezing their eggs . "Cryopreservation is a great hope for patients who do not intend to renounce motherhood - said Andrea Borini, president of the Italian Society of fertility preservation, during a symposium held in Rome in recent days by Merck Serono -. After the entry into force of Law 40 in 2004, our country in the technique of freezing oocytes was very refined and produced better results: in fact, in these seven years, the percentage recovery of thawed oocytes has increased 50 to 80 percent. While the success rate of assisted reproduction with the use of cryopreserved oocytes decreased from 12 percent up to the initial level which amounted to 25-26 prospects for cento.Importanti also cover the latest technique of cryopreservation and transplantation of tissue ovarian cancer, to date, led to the birth of 13 children. "