Chairs: Kate McCracken, Dario R. Roque

Faculty: Kate McCracken, Serena Chan, Emma Rossi, Emma L. Barber

Description: This course (sponsored by the Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology and Oncology Special Interest Groups) provides a comprehensive review of the principles and techniques of fertility preservation for patients facing gynecologic and non-gynecologic cancers. We will review how to provide comprehensive fertility preservation counseling that includes infertility risk stratification; illustrate fertility preservation techniques across multiple ages (children, adolescents, adults); and using video, demonstrate minimally invasive fertility preservation surgical techniques. Participants will learn about the role and indications to consider fertility-sparing surgical options, such as radical trachelectomy, ovarian transposition, and ovarian cystectomy.

Learning Objectives: At the end of this course, the participant will be able to:

1. Objective Understand a framework for counseling patients and families on fertility preservation options, and describe surgical techniques for fertility preservation in the pediatric/adolescent population, including ovarian tissue cryopreservation
2. Objective Understand the impact of a gynecologic cancer diagnosis, and the treatment, on fertility considerations
3. Objective Review the medical and surgical fertility sparing treatment options for women with cervical cancer and ovarian tumors

Course Outline

1:30 PM Welcome, Introduction and Course Overview

K. McCracken

1:35 PM Fertility Preservation Options for Pediatric and Adolescent Patients

K. McCracken

2:00 PM Fertility Preservation Counseling and Risk Stratification

S. Chan

2:25 PM Fertility Sparing Options for Patients with Cervical Cancer

E. Rossi

2:50 PM Fertility Sparing Options for Patients with Ovarian Tumors

E. Barber

3:15 PM Discussion Questions & Answers

1:30 PM Adjourn