Teresa K. Woodruff • Marla L. Clayman Kate E. Waimey Editors

2014

Sharing Information and Building Relationships across Disciplines

This is the fourth book in a series that has examined the development of a new field: “Oncofertility.” Our purpose in creating this new term was to communicate a simple concept: that fertility preservation for cancer patients is imperative to oncology doctors and to fertility doctors. The intention of a new word, without hyphenation, was to illustrate that solidarity. Oncofertility has entered the lexicon, but whether it surpasses the term that is otherwise used—“fertility preservation”—will be borne out by time.