Michelle Peate|Bettina Meiser|Michael Friedlander|Helen Zorbas|Susan Rovelli|Ursula M. Sansom?Daly|Jennifer Sangster|Dušan Hadži-Pavlovi?|Martha Hickey
It's Now or Never: Fertility-Related Knowledge, Decision-Making Preferences, and Treatment Intentions in Young Women With Breast Cancer—An Australian Fertility Decision Aid Collaborative Group Study
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many young women early breast cancer fertility priority interventions retain fertility options generally need accessed chemotherapy many women receive information regarding options timely fashion knowledge fertility decisional conflict previously measured young patients breast cancer considering future pregnanciesone hundred eleven young women early breast cancer yet completed families recruited around time diagnosis knowledge regarding fertilityrelated information decisional conflict preferences regarding fertility information decision making measuredfrom potential fertilityrelated knowledge score 10 mean 52 standard deviation 23 range 0 10 decreased knowledge associated increased decisional conflict pursuing fertility preserving interventions odds ratio 057 95 ci 044 073 p 001 thirtyone percent women reported would consider undertaking vitro fertilization ivf method conserve fertility whereas 38 uncertain consideration ivf related whether subjects committed relationship 120 p 716 definite desire children 154 p 513around diagnosis many young patients breast cancer low levels knowledge fertility issues low knowledge associated increased decisional conflict likely undermine quality decision making findings suggest targeted timely fertility information may reduce decisional conflict increase informed choice neither relationship status firm plans regarding future children reliably predict desire pursue fertility preservation