Contact for Journalists Only:
Jennifer Choi
Assistant Director, Media Relations
NYU Medical Center Public Affairs
212-404-3533
E-mail: Jennifer.Choi@nyumc.org

NYU Clinical Cancer Center presents:
“Cancer and Fertility:
What You Should Know about Fertility Preservation and Parenthood after Cancer”

NEW YORK, January 31, 2006 — NYU Clinical Cancer Center and Fertile Hope, a non-profit organization devoted to assisting cancer patients struggling with infertility, will co-sponsor a conference entitled, “Cancer and Fertility: What You Should Know about Fertility Preservation and Parenthood after Cancer.” The event will take place on Wednesday, February 8, from 6 pm to 7:30 pm, in Room 1121 at NYU Clinical Cancer Center (160 East 34th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues).

The session will address the reproductive risks associated with cancer treatment along with options to preserve fertility.

Presenters include:

Lindsay Beck, Founder and Executive Director, Fertile Hope

Frederick Licciardi, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Director of Donor Oocyte Program

Yelena Novik, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine (Oncology)

To RSVP for the lecture, please call 212-263-2266

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