Cancer Stories: The Art Of Oncology
It Mattered Later: A Patient Turned Doctor's Perspective on Fertility Loss
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:32:36
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Listen to ASCO’s Journal of Clinical Oncology essay, “It Mattered Later: A Patient Turned Doctor's Perspective on Fertility Loss” by Dr. Margaret Cupit-Link, who will be a clinical oncologist at Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis, MO. The essay is followed by an interview with Cupit-Link and host Dr. Lidia Schapira. Dr Cupit-Link shares her personal experience with childhood cancer and the importance of educating patients on the known and unknown consequences of their therapies so they can, when possible, participate in fertility preservation. TRANSCRIPT Narrator: It Mattered Later: A Patient-Turned-Doctor’s Perspective on Fertility Loss, by Margaret Cupit-Link, MD I was 19 years old when I had to make one of the most important decisions of my life. The problem was, at 19 years, it was not important to me—yet. With piercing clarity, I recall the very first time I heard the word sarcoma. My leg had been hurting, and I had just undergone magnetic resonance imaging. The doctor spoke of abnorma