I know this post may not appeal to many out there but as a mm survivor who happened to store sperm before my therapy began back in 1995 and fortunately have a wonderful nine year old son to show for it, I feel obligated to post this article.
If any of us happen to come in contact with a newly diagnosed cancer patient (cancer of any kind) we need to explain the need for sperm storage if the person ever intends to try to have a child.
"Yet a September article in the journal Cancer found that during the decade ended in 2005, only 18% of 821 young, male cancer patients had chosen to freeze samples of their sperm before undergoing treatment. Experts say the problem is that amid the terror of a cancer diagnosis, the only immediate concern too often is survival. At a time when survival is more the rule than the exception for young cancer patients, child-bearing options are an unnecessary casualty of treatment."
Ed Note- I wasn't exactly young at the time- I was 35-Â
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