Fertility preservation for male adolescent cancer patients.
- Author:
Long-Long FU
1
;
Kai-Shu ZHANG
1
;
Yi-Qun GU
2
Author Information
1. Graduate School, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, China.
2. Key Laboratory for Male Reproductive Health, Science and Technology Research Institute of the National Health and Family Planning Commission / WHO Collaborating Center for Research in Human Reproduction, Beijing 100081, China.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
fertility preservation;
male adolescent;
malignant tumor
- MeSH:
Adolescent;
Cryopreservation;
Fertility Preservation;
methods;
Humans;
Male;
Neoplasms;
therapy;
Semen Analysis;
Semen Preservation;
methods;
Spermatogonia;
Testis;
cytology
- From:
National Journal of Andrology
2017;23(3):262-266
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Fertility preservation is a hotspot of research in reproductive medicine, and that of male adolescent cancer patients is drawing even more attention from reproductive and oncologic clinicians. Both cancer and its treatment can decrease semen quality and even induce irreversible damage to fertility. Sperm cryopreservation is an effective method for fertility preservation. In the past few years, marked advances have been made in the cryopreservation, transplantation, and in vitro culture of testis tissue and stem spermatogonial cells. Although still experimental, these approaches may offer some options to those with no mature sperm in the testis. Unfortunately, very few people know and participate in the studies of fertility preservation and the utilization rate of cryopreserved sperm remains low. Therefor reproductive physicians and oncologists are required to make more efforts to search for effective fertility preservation methods for male adolescent cancer patients.
