Fertility Preservation in Gynaecologic Cancer

The Task Force promotes knowledge among health care workers and the public on infertility induced by treatment of gynaecologic cancers through national and international collaboration among Oncologists, Reproductive Specialists, and Allied Health Workers to promote research, education and to develop new strategies of fertility preservation.

Objectives

The Task Force’s initial objectives will focus on fertility preservation in all gynaecologic cancers in which fertility preserving techniques should be offered to the patients. As a cooperating counterpart to the frequently used techniques of reproductive medicine (e.g. cryopreservation of ovarian tissue and oocytes), this task force will mainly focus on the feasibility and safety of fertility preserving techniques, including e.g. conservative medical management of endometrial cancer as well as surgical procedures maintaining fertility (e.g. trachelectomy in cervical cancer).

The main activities within the next two years are establishing networks and cooperation with regional and supra-regional groups in order to increase public awareness, and optimisation of fertility preserving techniques by evaluation of the current available evidence and consecutively establishing evidence based guidelines accordingly.

Task Force Working Group

Chair
Dominik Denschlag, Freiburg, Germany

Members
Vesna Kesic, Serbia
Nicholas Reed, UK
Alexandros Rodolakis, Greece
Frederic Amant, Belgium
Achim Schneider, Germany

All ESGO members with a special interest in Fertility preservation are welcome to support the group. Feel free to contact Dominik Denschlag at dominik.denschlag@uniklinik-freiburg.de.