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Fertility

Oncology, the branch of medicine dealing with cancer, has offered millions of women and children the opportunity to fight and survive their diagnosis, but the surgical, chemo and radiotherapies employed can be harsh.

In many cases, due to the fast turnover of reproductive cells, cancer therapy can permanently, temporary or partially affect reproductive function. 

Preserving fertility before cancer treatment

The Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) has adopted a ground-breaking Programme of Action to advance women’s reproductive rights.

The great revelation at the Conference was that when we speak about population we are speaking about people, not just numbers. In Cairo they made their voices heard and the world had to listen.

Advancing women's reproductive rights (1994)

Empowering women with the ability to regulate and control their fertility is a basic requirement for women's health, well-being and quality of life, and a basic requirement for the enjoyment of other social rights.

A woman who does not have the means or the power to regulate and control her fertility cannot be considered in a "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being", the definition of health in the constitution of the World Health Organization.

Give women control of their fertility (1994)