Fertility preservation in young patients with ovarian cancer – a retrospective analysis of patients from a university hospital and from the FertiPROTEKT network

Ovarian cancer is generally depicted as being a rare disease, however with the highest mortality rate. Nevertheless, women of fertile age must be informed about the possibility of fertility preserving surgery and fertility preservation methods. The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence of the different histological types of ovarian tumours in young women and to determine and discuss the possibility of fertility preservation. This is a retrospective analysis of all patients under the age of 40 who presented to the University Hospital for Women in Tuebingen for an ovarian tumour between January 2001 a…