Exploring and expanding options for the reproductive future of cancer survivors
Social Sciences, Humanities & Oncofertility
Welcome to the Social Science and Humanities Projects
An important aim of the Oncofertility Consortium® is to build a new interdisciplinary field at the intersection of oncology and reproductive medicine. The creation of this new discipline and the eventual translation of its findings to the clinical setting raise significant issues regarding the social, ethical, and legal implications for patients with cancer and other serious diseases. Social science-based research is vital to understanding cancer patients’ concerns regarding fertility, and how patients, their families, and physicians make fertility-related healthcare decisions at the time of diagnosis.
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Waiting to be Born: The Ethical and Legal Implications of the Generation from Frozen and Stored Pre-pubertal Ovarian Tissue Understanding the ethical and legal considerations and implications associated with emerging oncofertility technologies |
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Assessing the Benefits and Costs of Oncofertility Treatment Evaluating the economic factors, decision-making rules, and risk-benefit analyses of accessing fertility conserving options when the outcomes are not known |
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A Shared Decision-Making Model: Informed Choice and Oncofertility Treatments Examining how families facing pediatric cancer communicate and assess information in making treatment decisions |
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The Patient-Physician Interface: How Breast Cancer Patients Navigate Fertility Concerns and Treatment Decision Assessing how adult women diagnosed with cancer and their doctors discuss issues regarding fertility and make treatment choices, and how fertility impacts women’s lives after cancer |
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Developing a Health-Related Quality of Life Instrument for Adolescent Who Are Pursuing Fertility Preservation Identifying the fertility-related concerns of female adolescent cancer patients who have completed or are about to complete treatment |
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Understanding Psychological Adjustment and Decision Making in Advanced Cancer Providing a foundation to understand processing and decision making in new cancer when a single immediate decision about oncofertility must be made |
