TY - CHAP
T1 - Adoption after cancer
T2 - Adoption agency attitudes and perspectives on the potential to parent post-cancer
AU - Gardino, Shauna L.
AU - Russell, Andrew E.
AU - Woodruff, Teresa K.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the Oncofertility Consortium NIH 8UL1DE019587, 5RL1HD058296.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The relationship between adoption and cancer may seem distant. Infertility, however, is oftentimes a consequence of cancer treatment, rendering cancer survivors incapable of biological reproduction. For this reason, the growing population of cancer survivors has a distinct relationship with adoption, as it may provide their only opportunity to parent. It is estimated that 1,479,350 men and women will be diagnosed with cancer in 2009. Remarkably, the overall 5-year relative cancer survival rate for 1999-2005 was 66.1% [1]. Since both cancer incidence rates and cancer survival rates are on the rise, the growing population of cancer survivors will likely be faced with the long-term consequences of their disease treatment, including infertility.
AB - The relationship between adoption and cancer may seem distant. Infertility, however, is oftentimes a consequence of cancer treatment, rendering cancer survivors incapable of biological reproduction. For this reason, the growing population of cancer survivors has a distinct relationship with adoption, as it may provide their only opportunity to parent. It is estimated that 1,479,350 men and women will be diagnosed with cancer in 2009. Remarkably, the overall 5-year relative cancer survival rate for 1999-2005 was 66.1% [1]. Since both cancer incidence rates and cancer survival rates are on the rise, the growing population of cancer survivors will likely be faced with the long-term consequences of their disease treatment, including infertility.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4419-6518-9_11
DO - 10.1007/978-1-4419-6518-9_11
M3 - Chapter
C2 - 20811831
AN - SCOPUS:77956370892
SN - 9781441965172
T3 - Cancer Treatment and Research
SP - 153
EP - 170
BT - Oncofertility
A2 - Woodruff, teresa
A2 - Rodriguez, Sarah
A2 - Campo-Engelstein, Lisa
A2 - Zoloth, Laurie
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