Patients' fertility can be affected both during cancer treatment – when an unplanned pregnancy could be a serious problem – and later, if the cancer treatment causes infertility. For patients who want to have children, this can be devastating. But new advances are giving hope – and options – to patients who want to have children.

Here Terri Woodard, M.D., who leads the MD Anderson Oncofertility Consult Service, answers 10 questions...