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Ethische Aspekte der Fertilitätsprotektion bei onkologischen Patientinnen

Now or never?

Ethical aspects of fertility preservation in female cancer patients

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Die Therapie einer Krebserkrankung kann bei jungen Frauen zur Unfruchtbarkeit führen. In den vergangenen Jahren wurden zunehmend experimentelle Verfahren zur Fertilitätsprotektion bei Frauen entwickelt. Die Patientin sollte trotz der Belastung durch die Diagnose der Karzinomerkrankung und die anstehende Therapie über Methoden und Optionen der Fertilitätsprotektion aufgeklärt werden. Eine autonome Entscheidung sollte ihr ermöglicht werden. Ethische Aspekte und Problemstellungen der fertilitätsprotektiven Maßnahmen, welche diese Entscheidungssituation beeinflussen, werden hier diskutiert.

Abstract

Cancer therapy in young women can cause infertility. In previous years experimental procedures for fertility preservation in women have increasingly been developed. Young female patients are not only confronted with a life-threatening disease but at the same time with the likelihood of therapy-induced fertility and the methods and options for fertility preservation should be explained in detail. Decision-making in this vulnerable situation is challenging. Ethical aspects and problems associated with measures for fertility preservation which can influence the decision situation are discussed.

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  1. Department Frauenheilkunde, Universitätsklinik für Gyn. Endokrinologie und Reproduktionsmedizin, Anichstr. 35, 6020, Innsbruck, Österreich

    B. Böttcher MA

  2. Klinik und Poliklinik für Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe, Universitätsklinikum Carl-Gustav-Carus, Dresden, Deutschland

    M. Goeckenjan

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Böttcher, B., Goeckenjan, M. Jetzt oder nie?. Gynäkologe 46, 642–647 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00129-013-3193-z

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