What are the fertility preservation options for women receiving radiation?
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Jill Trainer, MSW, LCSW
Patient Navigator, Division of Fertility Preservation
Oncofertility Consortium
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
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If a woman is having radiation treatment to the pelvic area, two options that might be available are ovarian transposition where we actually do a surgical procedure to move the ovaries out of the radiation field, or they are also able to shield the ovaries during radiation to kind of block the radiation that is exposed to the ovaries, hopefully protecting the ovaries and their functioning during that treatment and after. That’s so that it’ll be functioning after that treatment.