Decisions of Young Women With Breast Cancer Regarding Fertility Preservation Before Cancer Treatment and Family Building After Treatment

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center209 enrolled

Overview

This study will help the researchers learn more about factors that affect the decisions about fertility preservation and family building made by young women with breast cancer.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

209

Conditions

Fertility Preservation Breast Cancer

Interventions

web-based questionnaireBEHAVIORAL

Participants will complete a web-based questionnaire examining the decisions patients made about fertility preservation before and after treatment, the factors that influenced their decisions, and the ways in which patients pursue family building after treatment.

Eligibility

Sex: FEMALEMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 45 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Breast cancer, Stage 0-III * Female * 18-45 years of age at time of diagnosis * Patients that completed their primary breast cancer treatment (surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy). Patients can still be on endocrine therapy, trastuzumab and/or pertuzumab therapy. * Received education and counseling by MSK Fertility Nurse Specialist before beginning cancer treatment from 2009 through 2018 Exclusion Criteria: * Unable to read English

Locations (1)

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Patient-reported outcome questionnaire - Fertility Preservation Questionnaire

Number of patients reporting that fertility tools were recommended to them following their breast cancer diagnosis

Time frame: 1 year

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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