Oncofertility Consortium Annual Conference

 描述（由申请人提供）：年度Oncofertility会议旨在聚集疾病，生殖健康和肿瘤生育领域的领导者，传播新兴的基础和临床研究，以对抗疾病治疗对生殖健康和生育造成的损害。这笔赠款资金旨在支持肿瘤生育 会议将于2014年9月至2018年举行。专家演讲者被邀请讨论这项研究的临床意义，并提供有关的沟通，伦理和法律的考虑因素，需要提供护理这些患者的信息。本次会议是唯一一次此类会议，旨在团结杰出的研究人员，科学家，临床医生和患者社区，就新兴技术，研究和现实世界的选择进行互动讨论，以保护生殖健康免受疾病治疗的负面影响，包括化疗，放疗，手术和其他疾病修饰剂。会议与会者跨越癌症生物学，免疫学，生殖生物学，生物化学，内分泌学，低温生物学，生物医学和组织工程，护理，发育生物学，伦理学，法律，宗教，经济学，通信，公共卫生，社会学和心理学领域。此外，还邀请患者、提供者和患者倡导者分享他们在疾病中关于生殖健康的亲身经历。我们的目标是将这一前沿信息广泛传播给科学和医学学员以及全球肿瘤生育专业人士，其中许多人可能无法前往会议。我们开发了一种支持这一使命的创新方法;我们向地球仪的听众提供真实的会议讲座的网络广播，并有机会参与双向交流。此外，会议制作的材料，包括讲座录像和会议报告出版物，可在肿瘤生育联合会网站（oncofertility.northwestern.edu）上向感兴趣的受众提供。在过去，肿瘤生育联盟的年度会议产生了新的研究问题，发起了合作，培养了下一代肿瘤生育研究人员和临床医生的兴趣，并导致了多个学术努力。随着我们的领域不断发展，我们仍然坚定地致力于我们的进一步研究，教育和机会，为患者和从业者都获得知识，技术和治疗的最初目标。随着癌症和其他疾病治疗的进步，生存问题对这一患者群体及其提供者越来越重要。肿瘤生育力会议仍然是传播研究和临床护理进展的主要机会，以改善疾病幸存者的生殖健康选择，包括生育力。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The annual Oncofertility Conference aims to gather leaders in the fields of disease, reproductive health, and oncofertility to disseminate emerging basic and clinical research on strategies to counteract damage to reproductive health and fertility caused by disease treatments. This grant funding is intended to support the Oncofertility Conferences to be held in September 2014 - 2018. Expert speakers are invited to discuss the clinical implications of this research and provide information regarding the communication, ethical, and legal considerations needed to provide care to these patients. This meeting is the only one of its kind and serves the purpose of uniting prominent researchers, scientists, clinicians, and the patient community in an interactive discussion about emerging technologies, research, and real-world options for protecting reproductive health from the negative effects of disease treatment, including chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, and other disease- modifying agents. Conference attendees span the fields of cancer biology, immunology, reproductive biology, biochemistry, endocrinology, cryobiology, biomedical and tissue engineering, nursing, developmental biology, ethics, law, religion, economics, communication, public health, sociology, and psychology. Additionally, patients, providers, and patient advocates are invited to share their intimate experiences regarding reproductive health in the midst of disease. We aim to broadly disseminate this cutting-edge information to scientific and medical trainees and the global community of oncofertility professionals, many of whom may not be able to travel to the conference. We have developed an innovative approach in support of this mission; we provide web broadcasting of conference lectures in real time to audiences across the globe, with the opportunity to participate in bi-directional exchanges. Furthermore, materials produced from the conference, including video recordings of lectures and publications of conference reports are available to interested audiences on the Oncofertility Consortium website (oncofertility.northwestern.edu). In the past, the Oncofertility Consortium's annual conference has generated new research questions, initiated collaborations, cultivated the interests of the next-generation of oncofertility researchers and clinicians, and resulted in multiple academic endeavors. As our field continues to evolve, we remain deeply committed to our original goals of furthering research, education, and opportunities for patients and practitioners alike to access knowledge, techniques, and treatments. With advances in treatment for cancer and other diseases, survivorship issues are of increasing importance to this patient population and their providers. The Oncofertility Conference remains the leading opportunity to disseminate advances in research and clinical care to improve the reproductive health options, including fertility, of disease survivors.