If you need to have treatment for cancer that may affect your fertility, there are options available to ensure you can still have children in the future. 

Chemotherapy and radiotherapy can affect your sperm production – sometimes this is temporary but in other cases it may be permanent. Once your treatment begins, it may be too late to collect and preserve your sperm as it may already carry genetic damage. So, we strongly recommend you contact our Andrology Unit before commencing any cancer treatment.

Before you begin chemotherapy or radiotherapy treatment, some of your semen, containing sperm, can be frozen and kept until you wish to start a family.

Men who have to travel overseas or work in dangerous situations or low Sperm count may also want to have their sperm frozen for use in the future.