At a press conference Jorge Garcia Vargas, gynecologist and obstetrician, highlighted the existence of a new technique for women who have had or have cancer fulfill their dream of becoming mothers.
Accompanied by specialists and partners also Center for Fertility and Pregnancy Procrea, Guillermo Castellanos Barroso and Octavio Herrera Osorio, said that many women are unaware that there are new methods that allow them to fulfill their right to be mothers.
This desire and right, he added, can be realized even when they have been diagnosed with some form of cancer, gynecological treatments as these can be done with cancer treatments.
He stressed that the right to reproduction is a right of every human being according to the World Health Organization and the Mexican Constitution.
For his part, Dr. Guillermo Castellanos Barroso said that according to figures from the National Cancer Institute in the United States and its counterpart in Mexico, it is estimated that every human being has the probability of 39.6 percent of that in your life is diagnosed cancer.
Data National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) indicate that between 20 and 30 percent of couples may have a fertility problem.
The problem that many couples drift percentage that may have damage in sperm, in the case of men, or ovaries, in the case of women; some of the causes of such damage are cancer treatments: chemotherapy, radiation or surgery.
"In Mexico, the incidence of breast cancer in women of childbearing age of 15-39 years increased by 12 percent, in addition, about 76 percent of women surviving cancer have not had children, while 31 percent of those who already had a child want a second pregnancy, "he added.
Meanwhile Octavio Herrera Osorio explained that the Center for Fertility and Pregnancy Procrea design a personalized plan of diagnosis and treatment in order to fulfill the dream of many couples who want children or single women who want to be mothers.
The center, present for more than a decade in Mexico City and a couple of years in the city of Puebla ago, offers various methods to preserve fertility.
Among them he mentioned surgery, oocyte cryopreservation, sperm or embryos that allow the patient to select, along with your doctor, what is the best option according to your case.
Also, he said, it has the method that involves transplantation of ovarian tissue to preserve the fertility of the patient, a technique that worldwide only applied to 30 medical centers, mostly in Europe, and only one in the city Puebla.
"Puebla is the only state offering ovarian tissue transplantation, an innovative technique that involves removing and freezing a portion of said tissue for reimplantation" he said.
He noted that many women, due to lack of information, are doomed unless mothers after hearing a cancer diagnosis.