Can cancer treatment or surgery cause infertility? How can reproductive health be maintained?
Some chemotherapy drugs act on reproductive health unfavorably by destroying sperms and egg cells. Therefore, male patients diagnosed with cancer can keep their chances of becoming a father by having their sperms frozen before starting treatment. The idea of freezing and storing the ovarian tissue before cancer treatment aims to place such tissue into the body of the patient when she becomes cancer-free. However, freezing and transplanting the frozen ovarian tissue back to the body remains experimental.