Cancer - Cancer May Predispose Men to Higher Levels of Sperm DNA Damage

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Cancer - Cancer May Predispose Men to Higher Levels of Sperm DNA Damage

Aug 13, 2010

At this year's 2010 national American Urologic Association's meeting in San Francisco, California, Ragheb et al. from Cleveland, Ohio analyzed the cryopreserved sperm samples of 34 men with cancer (such as testicular cancer, Hodgkin's disease and Non-Hodgkin's disease) and found that their sperm had higher levels of DNA damage as compared to healthy normal men (39% vs 27%).
Bottomline: This concept of assessing sperm DNA damage before cancer therapy may provide a useful tool to assess whether the level of sperm DNA damage after cancer therapy has returned to a man's baseline levels to help counsel men about post-therapy fertility potential. -81310

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