Colleges Say NHS Should Fund Fertility Services For Cancer Patients, UK

A new working party report from the Royal Colleges of Physicians, Radiologists, and Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, including specialists in cancer and fertility, recommends that the NHS should fully fund fertility services for patients with cancer. NICE guidelines from 2004 recommend universal access to sperm, egg and embryo storage, but a survey of oncologists to accompany the report shows that these were not always widely available and funded, and certainly not universally provided.

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Filed under: Cancer on January 17th, 2008