The psychosocial impact of interrupted childbearing in long-term female cancer survivors

Objective To understand the influence of cancer-related infertility on women’s long-term distress and quality of life. Women diagnosed at age 40 or less with breast cancer, Hodgkin disease (HD), non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), were interviewed an average of 10 years later. We predicted that women whose desire for a child at diagnosis remained unfulfilled would be significantly more distressed.