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Has anyone had any experiences with sterility following chemotherapy?
My treatment, if I decide to choose it over surveillance, will be 2
rounds of BEP (bleomycin, etoposide, and cisplatin). My oncologists
have said there could be as much as a 50% chance of sterility. Has
anyone heard similar or different?
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-Sterility is a well-documented side-effect that is possible (not
certain) with many chemotharpy agents. Your physician should
readily discuss these side effects with you. This particular side
effect does not occur with ALL chemo, but it does with many of
them. -I know someone who had 4 rounds of Bleo (at his twenties) and he is sterile
ever since, although the doctors are not completely sure whether it was the
Chemo or the extremely elevated hormone levels that are associated with his
tumor, that caused his sterility. I heard of somebody who had Bleo in the early stages of the drug
development. He is definitely sterile because of it, but them of course the
dosage was a lot higher than what is administered today, and he is still
alive and well. As with all chemotherapy, one has to evaluate the risk vs. the benefits.
Talk to a fertility specialist about your options...
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