Pregnancy after Chemotherapy Agents

A May 2014 PubMed report, PubMed report Ovarian tissue cryopreservation: a committee opinion. explains one option in reproductive preservation to help women planning to have children at some point in life after their chemotherapy treatments are discontinued.

Women are born with a certain number of eggs, and they expose their eggs to all drugs. They take medical tests, including MRI and CTs, used during pregnancy. Today, research is finally proving that children with health issues that their parents did not have are the result of different things a mother is exposed to before and during pregnancy, especially with chemotherapies. However, individuals with NF2 are not always.

Any parent who is allowing their underage child to have chemotherapy should do the same.

Sources

1. Practice Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. (2014). Ovarian tissue cryopreservation: a committee opinion. Fertility and sterility, 101(5), 1237.
   DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2014.02.052 | Source (short): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24684955 Source (full): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0015028214002052
2. Wiemels, J., Wrensch, M., & Claus, E. B. (2010). Epidemiology and etiology of meningioma. Journal of neuro-oncology, 99(3), 307-314.
   http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11060-010-0386-3#page-1