Decisions of Young Women With Breast Cancer Regarding Fertility Preservation Before Cancer Treatment and Family Building After Treatment

August 15, 2025 updated by: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
This study will help the researchers learn more about factors that affect the decisions about fertility preservation and family building made by young women with breast cancer.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Observational

Enrollment (Actual)

209

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • New York
      • New York, New York, United States, 10065
        • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years to 45 years (Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sampling Method

Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

This is a cross-sectional survey of YWBC who received a pre-treatment consultation with a FNS from 2009 through 2018. Participants will complete a one-time web-based questionnaire examining the decisions they made about FP before and after treatment, the factors that influenced FP decisions, and the ways in which patients pursue FB after treatment.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Breast cancer, Stage 0-III
  • Female
  • 18-45 years of age at time of diagnosis
  • Patients that completed their primary breast cancer treatment (surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy). Patients can still be on endocrine therapy, trastuzumab and/or pertuzumab therapy.
  • Received education and counseling by MSK Fertility Nurse Specialist before beginning cancer treatment from 2009 through 2018

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Unable to read English

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort
Intervention / Treatment
Women with Breast Cancer
This is a cross-sectional survey of young women with breast cancer (YWBC) who received a consultation with an MSK Fertility Nurse Specialist before starting cancer treatment.
Behavioral: web-based questionnaire
Participants will complete a web-based questionnaire examining the decisions patients made about fertility preservation before and after treatment, the factors that influenced their decisions, and the ways in which patients pursue family building after treatment.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Patient-reported outcome questionnaire - Fertility Preservation Questionnaire
Time Frame: 1 year
Number of patients reporting that fertility tools were recommended to them following their breast cancer diagnosis
1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Shari Goldfarb, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Publications and helpful links

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Helpful Links

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

January 18, 2019

Primary Completion (Actual)

August 11, 2025

Study Completion (Actual)

August 11, 2025

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

January 21, 2019

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 23, 2019

First Posted (Actual)

January 28, 2019

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

August 17, 2025

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 15, 2025

Last Verified

August 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 18-461

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

YES

IPD Plan Description

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center supports the international committee of medical journal editors (ICMJE) and the ethical obligation of responsible sharing of data from clinical trials. The protocol summary, a statistical summary, and informed consent form will be made available on clinicaltrials.gov when required as a condition of Federal awards, other agreements supporting the research and/or as otherwise required. Requests for deidentified individual participant data can be made following one year after publication and for up to 36 months later. Deidentified individual participant data reported in the manuscript will be shared under the terms of a Data Use Agreement and may only be used for approved proposals. Requests may be made to: crdatashare@mskcc.org.

IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type

  • SAP
  • ICF

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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