Oncofertility is a new discipline focused on optimising medical fertility preservation treatment for young people.

It brings together oncologists, haematologists, fertility specialists, reproductive scientists, nurses, counsellors and researchers to maximise fertility outcomes for patients whose cancer or other serious disease — or, more commonly, its treatment — is likely to damage fertility and reduce the opportunity for having their own family in the future.

Access to fertility preservation for children, adolescents and reproductive-aged patients is now accepted as a mandatory part of cancer management.

The evolution of this field relates to improved long-term survival (over 80%) for young people with cancer, who can expect to lead a normal life, including the opportunity to have their own children.