According to study conducted by the University of California, San Francisco (UCFS), the current notion of the effect of chemo on female reproductive health are wrong.
The researchers state that their analysis of the effects of chemotherapy will provide new insights to help clinicians and patients make more educated decisions about options for future reproduction like egg harvesting.
Mitchell Rosen, M.D., senior author and assistant professor of obstetrics, gynaecology, and reproductive sciences in UCSF, said that the research showed that chemo does a lot of damage to the ovaries and causes a range of problems in reproduction, even though a majority of the respondents were told that as long as their periods returned after chemo, they would have no negative reproductive problems.
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