Breast cancer is associated with chemotherapy and radiation therapy, known for affecting a woman’s fertility. Early detection is the best breast cancer prevention. Book your annual mammogram now.
Diagnosing new cancer in a pregnant woman is difficult, in part because any symptoms are commonly assumed to be a normal discomfort associated with pregnancy.
If you wish to have children after completing your treatment, it's important to speak to a fertility specialist before undergoing any cancer treatments.
Some treatments for breast cancer can cause temporary infertility or make it harder for you to get pregnant after treatment ends. Other treatments cause permanent and irreversible menopause, which means you are permanently infertile.
Cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy or any kind of radiation that could harm their ovaries, similarly many other medical procedures could hurt your fertility. Therefore freezing your eggs before doing any major treatment will give you a fighting chance to get pregnant after completing your treatment.