Cervical
cancer and its treatment can affect your desire to have children, but some kind
of treatment can make you stay fertile.
Treatment of cervical cancer can impact on fertility, it is sometimes very difficult to imagine.
But keep thinking that infertility happens after cervical cancer can actually
be circumvented because there are several steps you can do to protect and make
your stay will be able to have children.
Keeping First Steps Fertility
The most effective thing you can do to keep so
you can get pregnant is to do a pap smear regularly every year so that the
presence of cervical cancer can be detected early.
How is Cervical Cancer Treatment Impact of Fertility?
Chemotherapy and radiation therapy used in treatment of cervical cancer can impact
on fertility. At a more advanced stage when treatment should be done with
surgery (hysterectomy) then you can not have children. And if the ovaries are
also removed through surgery then you will no longer produce eggs. On the type
of surgery or LEEP cone biopsy may result in damage to the cervix so as to
affect fertility. This condition makes the sperm and egg cells is difficult to
see that the process of fertilization does not occur.
Cervical
cancer treatment with radiation therapy will result
in your ovaries will be exposed by the beam of radiation that can damage the
egg so that it can cause premature menopause. In addition, treatment with
radiation will increase the risk of miscarriage and premature birth due to scar
formation and reduced blood flow to the uterus.
Because chemotherapy also kills healthy cells,
it is likely chemotherapy will damage the egg cells are stored in the ovaries
so that there is a risk of miscarriage and premature menopause.
Another issue is that if too many cervical glands (required for the movement of sperm into the uterus) is removed, it can result in sperm becomes dry and become unable to fertilize an egg. But if only a few glands are removed it will be very good in keeping it fertile.
Some Options What You Can Do If You Want Have Children
If you are undergoing treatment for cervical cancer, you should discuss with your doctor that you have the desire to have children. The following are some important things associated with cervical cancer and preserving fertility:
Another issue is that if too many cervical glands (required for the movement of sperm into the uterus) is removed, it can result in sperm becomes dry and become unable to fertilize an egg. But if only a few glands are removed it will be very good in keeping it fertile.
Some Options What You Can Do If You Want Have Children
If you are undergoing treatment for cervical cancer, you should discuss with your doctor that you have the desire to have children. The following are some important things associated with cervical cancer and preserving fertility:
• Do it early. If you are undergoing treatment
of cervical pre-cancer, discuss with your doctor about treatment options. Will
very likely you can still get pregnant and have children if treatment option
only affects a small portion of the cervix. And this can be achieved only with
early detection.
• trachelectomy. In some cases of advanced cervical cancer, doctors can perform trachelectomy procedure is then sew up the cervix of the uterus along the bottom. Trachelectomy still will make the uterus intact so that you may still have children.
• Storing ovaries. Your doctor may be able to
leave one ovary or both during a hysterectomy, so it can keep the egg cell and
reduce symptoms of menopause. You can also take one egg to be fertilized by
sperm and then "borrowed womb" another woman to raise embryo.
• Consider Your Options. Some chemotherapy
regimens may cause problems with fertility and of course depending on the type
of drug, dosage and combination of them, so discuss your doctor about treatment
options that you will live.
Development of Cervical Cancer Treatment
Fertility in women undergoing cervical cancer treatment to the
attention of serious scholars and researchers thus developed the type and
method of treatment that can protect the female reproductive organs. One method
that has been successful is to do a transplant ovaries during radiation
therapy, the goal is to protect the ovaries from damage caused by radiation.
Some other experts to do with the other approaches by providing a
"shield" in the ovaries during radiation therapy, and store eggs
before treatment.
What Should You Do?
Under these conditions, the treatment of cancer and wants to have children sometimes become emotional conflicts that happen to us. But we also must be able to think that there is another option if you want to have a child, adopted child is one of the choices. Although children are not of our blood, its presence in the midst of the family will give a different atmosphere.Another thing that is more important to prevent cervical cancer and the possibility of not having children is to do pap smears regularly.
