Young female cancer patients' experiences with fertility counselling and fertility preservation: a qualitative small-scale study within the Danish health care setting
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Young female cancer patients' experiences with fertility counselling and fertility preservation : a qualitative small-scale study within the Danish health care setting. / Hoeg, Didde; Schmidt, Lone; Tryde Macklon, Kirsten.
I: Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, Bind 121, Nr. 4, 2016, s. 283–288.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Young female cancer patients' experiences with fertility counselling and fertility preservation
T2 - a qualitative small-scale study within the Danish health care setting
AU - Hoeg, Didde
AU - Schmidt, Lone
AU - Tryde Macklon, Kirsten
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Introduction: Fertility counselling for young women newly diagnosed with cancer is an important field of preconceptional counselling. This qualitative, small-scale study explored how young women newly diagnosed with cancer experienced specialized fertility preservation counselling and treatment in the public Danish health care system.Methods: Semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted with five women below 40 years recently diagnosed with cancer. All women received fertility counselling by a fertility specialist at the Fertility Clinic, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Denmark before initiation of cancer treatment. Participants were interviewed at a place chosen by them, and interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data were analysed using systematic text condensation developed by Malterud and inspired by Giorgi’s phenomenological analysis.Results: None of the participants were aware that chemotherapy could destroy their eggs. The participants described how specialized fertility counselling and fertility preservation contributed to a belief in life after cancer, which gave them hope that they would survive their cancer disease. Further, the women described how the possibility of fertility preservation removed a huge concern and enabled them to concentrate on their cancer treatment and on getting better.Conclusion: Overall, the specialized fertility counselling and treatment to preserve fertility was highly valued. The women felt it gave them a choice about their future fertility. The fertility expert presented the various fertility-preserving scenarios, and the women were content that they had an actual choice.
AB - Introduction: Fertility counselling for young women newly diagnosed with cancer is an important field of preconceptional counselling. This qualitative, small-scale study explored how young women newly diagnosed with cancer experienced specialized fertility preservation counselling and treatment in the public Danish health care system.Methods: Semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted with five women below 40 years recently diagnosed with cancer. All women received fertility counselling by a fertility specialist at the Fertility Clinic, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Denmark before initiation of cancer treatment. Participants were interviewed at a place chosen by them, and interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data were analysed using systematic text condensation developed by Malterud and inspired by Giorgi’s phenomenological analysis.Results: None of the participants were aware that chemotherapy could destroy their eggs. The participants described how specialized fertility counselling and fertility preservation contributed to a belief in life after cancer, which gave them hope that they would survive their cancer disease. Further, the women described how the possibility of fertility preservation removed a huge concern and enabled them to concentrate on their cancer treatment and on getting better.Conclusion: Overall, the specialized fertility counselling and treatment to preserve fertility was highly valued. The women felt it gave them a choice about their future fertility. The fertility expert presented the various fertility-preserving scenarios, and the women were content that they had an actual choice.
U2 - 10.1080/03009734.2016.1204394
DO - 10.1080/03009734.2016.1204394
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 27413812
VL - 121
SP - 283
EP - 288
JO - Upsala läkareförenings förhandlingar
JF - Upsala läkareförenings förhandlingar
SN - 0300-9726
IS - 4
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