A View from the past into our collective future: the oncofertility consortium vision statement

Teresa K Woodruff¹, Lauren Ataman-Millhouse², Kelly S Acharya³, Teresa Almeida-Santos^{4

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6}, Antoinette Anazodo^{7

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9}, Richard A Anderson¹⁰, Leslie Appiah¹¹, Joy Bader¹², Kerri Becktell¹³, Robert E Brannigan¹⁴, Lesley Breech¹⁵, Maria T Bourlon¹⁶, Žana Bumbuliene¹⁷, Karen Burns^{18

19}, Lisa Campo-Engelstein²⁰, Jacira R Campos²¹, Grace M Centola^{22

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24}, Mauricio Barbour Chehin²⁵, Diane Chen^{26

27}, Michel De Vos^{28

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30}, Francesca E Duncan², Ahmed El-Damen^{31

32}, Douglas Fair³³, Yemi Famuyiwa^{34

35}, Patricia Y Fechner³⁶, Paula Fontoura³⁷, Olivia Frias³⁸, Sabrina A Gerkowicz^{39

40}, Jill Ginsberg⁴¹, Clarisa R Gracia⁴², Kara Goldman⁴³, Veronica Gomez-Lobo⁴⁴, Brent Hazelrigg¹², Michael H Hsieh⁴⁵, Luis R Hoyos⁴⁶, Alfonso Hoyos-Martinez⁴⁷, Robert Jach⁴⁸, Jacek Jassem⁴⁹, Murid Javed⁵⁰, Yasmin Jayasinghe⁵¹, Roohi Jeelani^{52

53}, Jacqueline S Jeruss⁵⁴, Nalini Kaul-Mahajan^{55

56}, Jessica Keim-Malpass^{57

58}, Tyler G Ketterl^{59

60}, Mohamed Khrouf⁶¹, Dana Kimelman⁶², Atsuko Kusuhara⁶³, William H Kutteh^{64

65}, Monica M Laronda^{66

67}, Jung Ryeol Lee⁶⁸, Vicky Lehmann⁶⁹, Joseph M Letourneau⁷⁰, Lynda K McGinnis⁷¹, Eileen McMahon^{72

73}, Lillian R Meacham⁷⁴, Monserrat Fabiola Velez Mijangos⁷⁵, Molly Moravek^{76

77}, Leena Nahata⁷⁸, George Moses Ogweno^{79

80}, Kyle E Orwig⁸¹, Mary Ellen Pavone⁴³, Fedro Alessandro Peccatori⁸², Romina Ileana Pesce⁸³, Hanna Pulaski⁸¹, Gwendolyn Quinn⁸⁴, Ramiro Quintana⁸⁵, Tomas Quintana⁸⁵, Bruno Ramalho de Carvalho⁸⁶, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman⁸⁷, Joyce Reinecke⁸⁸, Fernando M Reis⁸⁹, Julie Rios^{15

38}, Alice S Rhoton-Vlasak⁹⁰, Kenny A Rodriguez-Wallberg⁹¹, Cassandra Roeca⁹², Seth J Rotz⁹³, Erin Rowell^{66

67}, Mahmoud Salama², Amanda J Saraf⁹⁴, Anibal Scarella^{95

96}, Tara Schafer-Kalkhoff⁹⁷, Deb Schmidt⁹⁸, Suneeta Senapati⁴², Divya Shah⁴², Ariella Shikanov⁹⁹, Margarett Shnorhavorian¹⁰⁰, Jodi L Skiles¹⁰¹, James F Smith¹⁰², Kristin Smith⁴³, Fabio Sobral¹⁰³, Kyle Stimpert¹⁰⁴, H Irene Su¹⁰⁵, Kouhei Sugimoto¹⁰⁶, Nao Suzuki¹⁰⁷, Mili Thakur^{108

109}, David Victorson¹¹⁰, Luz Viale⁸⁵, Wendy Vitek^{102

111}, W Hamish Wallace¹¹², Ellen A Wartella¹¹³, Lynn M Westphal¹¹⁴, Stacy Whiteside¹¹⁵, Lea H Wilcox¹², Christine Wyns¹¹⁶, Shuo Xiao¹¹⁷, Jing Xu^{118

119}, Mary Zelinski^{118

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. TeresaWoodruff1989@alum.northwestern.edu.
² Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, Duke Fertility Center, Durham, NC, USA.
⁴ Reproductive Medicine Unit, Coimbra Hospital and University Centre, Coimbra, Portugal.
⁵ Clinical Academic Center of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
⁶ Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
⁷ Kids Cancer Centre, Sydney Children's Hospital, Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Sydney, Australia.
⁸ Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
⁹ School of Women's and Children's Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
¹⁰ Centre for Reproductive Health, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
¹¹ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
¹² ReproTech, Ltd., Saint Paul, MN, USA.
¹³ Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Urology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
¹⁵ Department of Surgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
¹⁶ Hemato-Oncology Department, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico.
¹⁷ Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
¹⁸ Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
¹⁹ Division of Oncology, Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
²⁰ Institute for the Medical Humanities, Department of Preventive Medicine and Population Health, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.
²¹ Lab For Life Human Reproduction Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
²² Dadi, Inc., Brooklyn, NY, USA.
²³ Phoenix Sperm Bank of Seattle Sperm Bank, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
²⁴ New England Cryogenic Center/New England Cord Blood Bank, Marlborough, MA, USA.
²⁵ Huntington Reproductive Medicine, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil.
²⁶ Potocsnak Family Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine and Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
²⁷ Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
²⁸ Centre for Reproductive Medicine, UZ Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
²⁹ Follicle Biology Laboratory (FOBI), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
³⁰ Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, Perinatology and Reproductology, Institute of Professional Education, Sechenov University, Moscow, Russia.
³¹ IVIRMA Middle East Fertility Clinic, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
³² Division of Embryology and Comparative Anatomy, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.
³³ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, University of Utah, Primary Children's Hospital, Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
³⁴ Montgomery Fertility Center, Rockville, MD, USA.
³⁵ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA.
³⁶ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology, Seattle Children's Hospital, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
³⁷ Rio de Janeiro Sperm Bank, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
³⁸ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
³⁹ IVFMD, Boca Raton, FL, USA.
⁴⁰ IVFMD, Cooper City, FL, USA.
⁴¹ Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁴² Division of Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁴³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁴⁴ Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
⁴⁵ Department of Urology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
⁴⁶ Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁴⁷ Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Diabetes and Endocrinology, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
⁴⁸ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical College Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
⁴⁹ Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland.
⁵⁰ OriginElle Fertility Clinic and Women's Health Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁵¹ Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology Royal Women's Hospital, University of Melbourne, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
⁵² Vios Fertility Institute, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁵³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA.
⁵⁴ Departments of Surgery, Pathology, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁵⁵ Mother & Child Hospital, New Delhi, India.
⁵⁶ Ferticity Fertility Clinics, New Delhi, India.
⁵⁷ School of Nursing, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
⁵⁸ Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
⁵⁹ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁶⁰ Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁶¹ FERTILLIA, Clinique la Rose, Tunis, Tunisia.
⁶² Centro de Esterilidad Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay.
⁶³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
⁶⁴ Department of Reproductive Endocrinology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA.
⁶⁵ Department of Surgery, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
⁶⁶ Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁶⁷ Department of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁶⁸ Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Fertility Preservation and Enhancement Research Laboratory, Seongnam, Korea.
⁶⁹ Department of Medical Psychology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Cancer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁷⁰ University of Utah Center for Reproductive Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
⁷¹ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁷² Sinai Health System, Mount Sinai Fertility, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁷³ University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁷⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Aflac Cancer Center of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
⁷⁵ Biology of Human Reproduction Department, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico.
⁷⁶ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁷⁷ Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁷⁸ Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA.
⁷⁹ Reproductive Endocrinology and Fertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Nairobi Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁸⁰ Esis Health Services (EHS), Nairobi, Kenya.
⁸¹ Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Magee-Womens Research Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
⁸² Fertility & Procreation Unit, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
⁸³ Reproductive Medicine Unit, Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁸⁴ Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Center for Medical Ethics, Population Health, Grossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
⁸⁵ Procrearte, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁸⁶ Hospital Sírio-Libanês Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil.
⁸⁷ Department of Medicine/Division of Rheumatology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁸⁸ Alliance for Fertility Preservation, Lafayette, CA, USA.
⁸⁹ Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁹⁰ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA.
⁹¹ Department of Reproductive Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁹² Division of Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
⁹³ Department of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, and Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, Cleveland, OH, USA.
⁹⁴ Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
⁹⁵ Centro de Reproducción Humana, Facultad Medicina, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile.
⁹⁶ Departamento de Obstetricia y Ginecología, Escuela de Medicina, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile.
⁹⁷ Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
⁹⁸ Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
⁹⁹ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
¹⁰⁰ Department of Urology, Division of Pediatric Urology, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
¹⁰¹ Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
¹⁰² Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
¹⁰³ Pregna Medicina Reproductiva, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹⁰⁴ Department of Hematology/Oncology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA.
¹⁰⁵ Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.
¹⁰⁶ International Center for Reproductive Medicine, Dokkyo Medical University, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama, Japan.
¹⁰⁷ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan.
¹⁰⁸ Reproductive Genomics Program, The Fertility Center, Grand Rapids, MI, USA.
¹⁰⁹ Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI, USA.
¹¹⁰ Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
¹¹¹ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA.
¹¹² Paediatric Oncology, University of Edinburgh & Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
¹¹³ Center on Media and Human Development, School of Communication, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
¹¹⁴ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
¹¹⁵ Fertility & Reproductive Health Program, Department of Hematology/Oncology/BMT, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA.
¹¹⁶ Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
¹¹⁷ Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Environmental Health Sciences Institute, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
¹¹⁸ Division of Reproductive & Developmental Sciences, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Beaverton, OR, USA.
¹¹⁹ Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA.

PMID: 33405006
PMCID: PMC7786868
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-020-01983-4

A View from the past into our collective future: the oncofertility consortium vision statement

Teresa K Woodruff et al. J Assist Reprod Genet. 2021 Jan.

. 2021 Jan;38(1):3-15.

doi: 10.1007/s10815-020-01983-4. Epub 2021 Jan 6.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. TeresaWoodruff1989@alum.northwestern.edu.
² Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, Duke Fertility Center, Durham, NC, USA.
⁴ Reproductive Medicine Unit, Coimbra Hospital and University Centre, Coimbra, Portugal.
⁵ Clinical Academic Center of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
⁶ Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
⁷ Kids Cancer Centre, Sydney Children's Hospital, Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Sydney, Australia.
⁸ Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
⁹ School of Women's and Children's Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
¹⁰ Centre for Reproductive Health, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
¹¹ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
¹² ReproTech, Ltd., Saint Paul, MN, USA.
¹³ Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Urology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
¹⁵ Department of Surgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
¹⁶ Hemato-Oncology Department, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico.
¹⁷ Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
¹⁸ Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
¹⁹ Division of Oncology, Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
²⁰ Institute for the Medical Humanities, Department of Preventive Medicine and Population Health, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.
²¹ Lab For Life Human Reproduction Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
²² Dadi, Inc., Brooklyn, NY, USA.
²³ Phoenix Sperm Bank of Seattle Sperm Bank, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
²⁴ New England Cryogenic Center/New England Cord Blood Bank, Marlborough, MA, USA.
²⁵ Huntington Reproductive Medicine, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil.
²⁶ Potocsnak Family Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine and Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
²⁷ Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
²⁸ Centre for Reproductive Medicine, UZ Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
²⁹ Follicle Biology Laboratory (FOBI), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
³⁰ Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, Perinatology and Reproductology, Institute of Professional Education, Sechenov University, Moscow, Russia.
³¹ IVIRMA Middle East Fertility Clinic, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
³² Division of Embryology and Comparative Anatomy, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.
³³ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, University of Utah, Primary Children's Hospital, Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
³⁴ Montgomery Fertility Center, Rockville, MD, USA.
³⁵ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA.
³⁶ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology, Seattle Children's Hospital, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
³⁷ Rio de Janeiro Sperm Bank, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
³⁸ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
³⁹ IVFMD, Boca Raton, FL, USA.
⁴⁰ IVFMD, Cooper City, FL, USA.
⁴¹ Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁴² Division of Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁴³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁴⁴ Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
⁴⁵ Department of Urology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
⁴⁶ Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁴⁷ Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Diabetes and Endocrinology, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
⁴⁸ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical College Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
⁴⁹ Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland.
⁵⁰ OriginElle Fertility Clinic and Women's Health Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁵¹ Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology Royal Women's Hospital, University of Melbourne, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
⁵² Vios Fertility Institute, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁵³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA.
⁵⁴ Departments of Surgery, Pathology, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁵⁵ Mother & Child Hospital, New Delhi, India.
⁵⁶ Ferticity Fertility Clinics, New Delhi, India.
⁵⁷ School of Nursing, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
⁵⁸ Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
⁵⁹ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁶⁰ Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁶¹ FERTILLIA, Clinique la Rose, Tunis, Tunisia.
⁶² Centro de Esterilidad Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay.
⁶³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
⁶⁴ Department of Reproductive Endocrinology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA.
⁶⁵ Department of Surgery, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
⁶⁶ Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁶⁷ Department of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁶⁸ Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Fertility Preservation and Enhancement Research Laboratory, Seongnam, Korea.
⁶⁹ Department of Medical Psychology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Cancer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁷⁰ University of Utah Center for Reproductive Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
⁷¹ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁷² Sinai Health System, Mount Sinai Fertility, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁷³ University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁷⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Aflac Cancer Center of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
⁷⁵ Biology of Human Reproduction Department, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico.
⁷⁶ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁷⁷ Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁷⁸ Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA.
⁷⁹ Reproductive Endocrinology and Fertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Nairobi Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁸⁰ Esis Health Services (EHS), Nairobi, Kenya.
⁸¹ Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Magee-Womens Research Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
⁸² Fertility & Procreation Unit, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
⁸³ Reproductive Medicine Unit, Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁸⁴ Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Center for Medical Ethics, Population Health, Grossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
⁸⁵ Procrearte, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁸⁶ Hospital Sírio-Libanês Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil.
⁸⁷ Department of Medicine/Division of Rheumatology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁸⁸ Alliance for Fertility Preservation, Lafayette, CA, USA.
⁸⁹ Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁹⁰ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA.
⁹¹ Department of Reproductive Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁹² Division of Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
⁹³ Department of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, and Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, Cleveland, OH, USA.
⁹⁴ Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
⁹⁵ Centro de Reproducción Humana, Facultad Medicina, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile.
⁹⁶ Departamento de Obstetricia y Ginecología, Escuela de Medicina, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile.
⁹⁷ Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
⁹⁸ Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
⁹⁹ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
¹⁰⁰ Department of Urology, Division of Pediatric Urology, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
¹⁰¹ Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
¹⁰² Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
¹⁰³ Pregna Medicina Reproductiva, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹⁰⁴ Department of Hematology/Oncology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA.
¹⁰⁵ Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.
¹⁰⁶ International Center for Reproductive Medicine, Dokkyo Medical University, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama, Japan.
¹⁰⁷ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan.
¹⁰⁸ Reproductive Genomics Program, The Fertility Center, Grand Rapids, MI, USA.
¹⁰⁹ Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI, USA.
¹¹⁰ Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
¹¹¹ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA.
¹¹² Paediatric Oncology, University of Edinburgh & Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
¹¹³ Center on Media and Human Development, School of Communication, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
¹¹⁴ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
¹¹⁵ Fertility & Reproductive Health Program, Department of Hematology/Oncology/BMT, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA.
¹¹⁶ Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
¹¹⁷ Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Environmental Health Sciences Institute, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
¹¹⁸ Division of Reproductive & Developmental Sciences, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Beaverton, OR, USA.
¹¹⁹ Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA.

PMID: 33405006
PMCID: PMC7786868
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-020-01983-4

Abstract

Purpose: Today, male and female adult and pediatric cancer patients, individuals transitioning between gender identities, and other individuals facing health extending but fertility limiting treatments can look forward to a fertile future. This is, in part, due to the work of members associated with the Oncofertility Consortium.

Methods: The Oncofertility Consortium is an international, interdisciplinary initiative originally designed to explore the urgent unmet need associated with the reproductive future of cancer survivors. As the strategies for fertility management were invented, developed or applied, the individuals for who the program offered hope, similarly expanded. As a community of practice, Consortium participants share information in an open and rapid manner to addresses the complex health care and quality-of-life issues of cancer, transgender and other patients. To ensure that the organization remains contemporary to the needs of the community, the field designed a fully inclusive mechanism for strategic planning and here present the findings of this process.

Results: This interprofessional network of medical specialists, scientists, and scholars in the law, medical ethics, religious studies and other disciplines associated with human interventions, explore the relationships between health, disease, survivorship, treatment, gender and reproductive longevity.

Conclusion: The goals are to continually integrate the best science in the service of the needs of patients and build a community of care that is ready for the challenges of the field in the future.

Keywords: Fertility preservation; Oncofertility; cancer.

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Purple pins represent locations of the Oncofertility Professional Engagement Network (OPEN) member centers. OPEN consists of individuals or groups from 45 countries and is linked by basic and clinical research a high-level of shared protocols and experiences. Member leverage work done in affiliated centers to accelerate their formation and services offered [–7]

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Vision, mission, and value statement issued by the oncofertility leadership team

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