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Pregnancy After Ovarian Cancer

Jun 22, 2013 11:32

Setting: 2013, United States, in a world with magical Artifacts

Search Terms Used: Pregnancy after ovarian cancer, fertility with one ovary, IVF with no ovaries ( Read more... )

~medicine: reproduction, ~medicine: illnesses: cancers

Comments 9

empty_mirrors June 22 2013, 16:26:54 UTC

It all depends on the treatment she had for the cancer and how advanced it was. If she had extensive radiotherapy/chemotherapy/surgery she might be infertile, but decent gynaecological oncologists will do their best to reduce the risks of that happening. If that isn't an issue and we're just talking being down to one ovary and no damage to the fallopian tubes and uterus, she should be just about as fertile as she would be normally.

marycatelli June 22 2013, 19:26:26 UTC

Yeah, the big question is whether both ovaries were affected by the treatment.

tafkarfanfic June 22 2013, 20:37:40 UTC

My grandmother got pregnant (accidentally) with only one quarter of one ovary. But she hadn't gone through chemo.

samjohnsson June 22 2013, 21:44:19 UTC

There's also, given where she works, the potential to have complete hand-waviness - if you're going to go in for the "fertility Artifact" penny, you might as well go in for the pound. Considering she had a canon pregnancy without insemination because Artifact...

emerald_green37 June 22 2013, 23:53:12 UTC

If the cancer was caught early they would remove the affected ovary and then wait a few weeks for additional blood tests. If the margins were good on the removed ovary (No sign of the cancer breaking through the outer edge of the ovary) and no markers show up in her blood work, they would do no further treatment, just blood tests every 6 months. My daughter went through this and had a baby about a year after she was given the all clear.

lilacsigil June 23 2013, 02:42:59 UTC

If she had chemo the odds of getting pregnant again are very low, but not zero. Some women also freeze ovarian tissue before having this treatment and there have been successful pregnancies from that. There is a risk of the cancer returning during pregnancy (especially with a cancer sensitive to estrogen which ovarian tumours often are) so if she decides to go ahead with the pregnancy she will be monitored closely.