Having children after cancer
Subtitle: how to make informed choices before and after treatment and build the family of your dreams / by Gina M. Shaw ; foreword by Hope S. Rugo
Publisher: Celestial Arts
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781587610547
Subjects: Popular works; Complications; Treatment; Infertility; Cancer
Description: "The first book to address fertility and cancer in a comprehensive, prescriptive way, explaining which cancers and treatments affect fertility and presenting a wide range of family-building options"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-202) and index.
Table of contents: title: Cancer and the chance of children: how cancer treatments affect your fertility; title: Hold on to what you've got: fertility preservation; title: Be my baby: adoption; title: Not so inconceivable: spontaneous conception and assisted reproduction; title: Third-party lines: embryo or egg donation and surrogacy; title: I?m pregnant? now what? a healthy pregnancy after cancer; title: What's cancer, mom? fears and concerns about parenting after cancer.