Fertility in Young People with Cancer

Members are encouraged to watch this engaging and clinically relevant webinar exploring fertility considerations for adolescents and young people diagnosed with cancer. Fertility can be significantly impacted by cancer and its treatment, yet discussions are often time-sensitive and complex. This webinar recording provides nurses with the knowledge and confidence to integrate fertility care into routine oncology practice, ensuring patients receive timely, informed, and compassionate support.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Understand the fertility risks associated with cancer treatment
• Apply guidelines to support early fertility discussions and timely referral
• Identify fertility preservation options for young people
• Provide patient-centred, informed fertility counselling
• Recognise common barriers to fertility care and apply decision-support strategies
• Support fertility care across the cancer journey, including case-based applications

Shelley Rumble

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Tracy Till

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Interesting resources

The Youth Cancer Services offer support to Young People across Australia. Support Services for Young Cancer Patients | Canteen Australia

Canteen has some fantastic resources for working with Young people who have cancer. This resource is useful for young people when discussing Fertility.

In-Time Fertility Program is run through the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne, they offer free fertility counselling, tissue transport, and cryopreservation for young cancer patients (up to 24 years). In Time - fertility preservation for young cancer patients | The Royal Women's Hospital

Interesting Journal articles.

• The Impact of Uterine Radiation on Subsequent Fertility and Pregnancy Outcomes (2014) - https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/482968
• Reproductive Care of Childhood and Adolescent Cancer Survivors: A 12-Year Evaluation (2021) - https://doi.org/10.1089/jayao.2020.0157
• Adolescents, young adults, and cancer What GPs need to know (2017) - T2017-08-014-NG.pdf
• Canteen: Exploring survivorship care - Determining Research Priorities for Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology in Australia
• Reproductive concerns among adolescent and young adult cancer survivors: A scoping review of current research situations (2022) - https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.4708
• Peter Mac: AYA professional resources - AYA professional resources - Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
• “We Can Always Adopt”: Perspectives of Adolescent and Young Adult Males with Cancer and Their Family on Alternatives to Biological Parenthood (2020) - https://doi.org/10.1089/jayao.2020.0002
• Adoption as an Alternative Family-Building Strategy: Perceptions of Female, Young Adult Cancer Survivors Receiving Gonadotoxic Treatments (2024) - https://doi.org/10.1089/jayao.2023.0143
• Recollection of Fertility Discussion in Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Patients: A Single-Institution Study (2019) -https://doi.org/10.1089/jayao.2019.0075
• Reproductive Outcomes After a Childhood and Adolescent Young Adult Cancer Diagnosis in Female Cancer Survivors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2018) - https://doi.org/10.1089/jayao.2018.0036
• Fertility concerns among child and adolescent cancer survivors and their parents: A qualitative analysis (2016) - Ellis_2016_Fertility_concerns_JPO (1).pdf
• Infertility, the outcomes of assisted reproductive technologies use in childhood cancer survivors: a scoping review (2026) - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11764-026-01988-5
• First successful transplant of human immature testicular tissue after gonadotoxic therapy during childhood: complete spermatogenesis in intra-testicular grafts - https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.04.26347483