How do people with cancer find a doctor in their area who can assist with fertility preservation?

So one of the big issues for a young cancer patient is ensuring that they get the most accurate information and that they’re routed to clinicians who understand the fertility threat of cancer treatment. And so we’ve established a network across the nation called the National Physician’s Consortium and that Cons[ortium] has been developed so that about 50 sites around the nation know how to marry the cancer treatment to fertility-sparing options.

So a young person with a cancer diagnosis who has come to this Web site can call our fertility hotline and we can then route you to these particular sites around the nation. In some cases you might come to Chicago, or you might go to Los Angeles if you’re in California, you might go to University of Pennsylvania if you’re on the East Coast, but we’ve established a way that all the technology that we’ve built at Northwestern has been delivered to sites around the nation so that women can be provided with the options they need in a timely manner, in a geographic area that doesn’t mean that they have to fly for hours in order to get the kind of treatment that they need.