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HEALTH JOURNAL
Giving Male Cancer Patients
Better Odds at Being a Dad
By KEVIN HELLIKER
November 13, 2007; Page D1
Before David Goodack underwent cancer treatment at age 20, nobody
suggested he preserve a sample of his sperm. Mr. Goodack himself
didn't think of it, even though his physician warned that the
necessary surgery could render him infertile -- as it did. "I was just
thinking about surviving," says Mr. Goodack, a Kansas City, Mo., press
foreman, now 44 and childless.
Since Mr. Goodack's surgery, hundreds of thousands of babies have been
conceived with preserved samples of sperm. 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.
Now, two advocacy groups are teaming up with a for-profit sperm bank
to make sperm-collection kits available across the country. The kits
-- which will be distributed to oncology professionals nationwide
starting this month -- contain the materials and instructions
necessary for patients to produce a usable sperm sample at home or in
the hospital. It includes a postage-paid package for fast delivery to
Cryogenic Laboratories Inc., a Roseville, Minn., sperm bank, so no ice
is needed for transport. Cryogenic Laboratories will charge $625 for
processing and freezing the specimen for one year. The storage cost of
each subsequent year -- frozen sperm can remain potent for decades --
is $280. In some cases, insurance will help defray that cost.
Of the 35,000 young men diagnosed with cancer each year, about 90%
risk losing their fertility to chemotherapy, radiation or surgery.
Cancer treatments sterilize men and women alike, but preserving the
fertility of women is more complicated and expensive -- and more
publicized.
The kit's arrival in oncology offices is designed to raise awareness.
Major academic cancer centers are likely to offer fertility options.
And men can on their own seek out one the many other storage
facilities available -- particularly in big cities -- if they think of
it. But about 80% of young men receiving cancer treatments do so in
community hospitals, often in cities that lack sperm banks, says
Lindsay Beck, founder of nonprofit Fertile Hope and the creator of the
new kit. She adds that 20 states lack sperm banks altogether. In 2002,
the Journal of Clinical Oncology published two surveys -- one showing
that only 51% of 201 young, male cancer patients had been offered
sperm banking, the other showing that 48% of 162 oncologists either
never broached fertility with eligible male patients or did so less
than 25% of the time.
"A lot of oncologists out there will see only a handful of adolescents
or young adults a year, so they're not thinking about fertility," says
Brandon Hayes-Lattin, an Oregon Health & Science University oncologist
specializing in young-adult issues.
The kit, called Live:On, is also designed to eliminate a dilemma
facing some men: whether to postpone treatment while pursuing sperm
preservation. Gathering information about sperm preservation -- where
and how to do it, how to ship off a specimen if no bank is nearby --
can take a few days. That could delay treatment of some fast-growing
cancers. Armed with the kit soon to be available in oncologists'
offices, however, a patient could preserve his child-bearing options
in a matter of hours.
Cryogenic Laboratories will donate an unspecified percentage of its
storage fees to its two partners in the effort, the Lance Armstrong
Foundation and Fertile Hope, an organization dedicated to increasing
fertility options for young cancer patients. Through Fertile Hope,
financially strapped patients can apply for discounts.
Success rates for conceiving babies with preserved sperm vary
according to technique. The September journal of Cancer article
reported that of those young men who tried using their specimens for
procreation, 36.4% succeeded with intrauterine insemination and 50%
succeeded with two more-expensive techniques -- in-vitro fertilization
and intracytoplasmic sperm injection. The Lance Armstrong Foundation
says that its namesake, the world-renowned cyclist, owes his three
children to sperm samples preserved before he underwent cancer
treatment.
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