When a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer the concern is very great, both to overcome the disease, as in most cases of women who have no children, the possibility of being a mother one day.
Some years ago it was unthinkable. The diagnosis came from the hand of frustration for not being able to conceive in the future due to the aggressiveness of the treatment, but today it is possible to be a mother after breast cancer: in Spain, four women with cancer have become mothers after preserving their fertility at the Valencian Institute of Infertility (IVI).
We must also add a woman who is currently 16 weeks pregnant and whose partner also preserved her fertility due to cancer.
The IVI has a free fertility preservation program in cancer patients called 'Father after cancer and Mother after cancer', a very laudable initiative thanks to which nearly 1,000 preservations between men and women have been carried out to date.
How is fertility preserved? They know each other three fertility preservation techniques for women with cancer: cryopreservation of embryos, vitrification of ovules and freezing of ovarian tissue. The most frequently performed is the vitrification of ovules, since many patients do not have a stable partner at the time of diagnosis or do not want to freeze embryos for personal reasons.
Breast cancer is the most frequent tumor among women and accounts for almost 30% of all female tumors in Spain, according to data from the Spanish Association Against Cancer. Next Sunday is celebrated on World Breast Cancer Day, so from Babies and more we honor these women who have fulfilled their dream of being mothers after the disease and those who will get it. The great triumph of life.
