Male with leukemia?!
Question:
Male with leukemia?
Will the chances of a man being able to have children be affected or decreased if he has leukemia?
Answers:
It depends on which sort of Leukemia he has (for example there is ALL, AML, CLL, and CML - where the a stands for acute, the c stands for chronic, the middle l for lymphocytic, the middle m for mylogenous and the final l stand for Leukemia) and what sort of treatment he has/had.
Some kinds of drugs used to treat Leukemia - chemotherapy - have long term effects that can prevent people from having children after treatment. Also, depending on whether or not his particular sort of cancer is caused by genetic factors, it might not be wise to have children (because of thier increased risk of having cancer).
The National Cancer Institute has a whole page of information on Leukemia:
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types...
From that site you can read more about Leukemia, request information on the disease, talk via IM to a cancer counselor, or you can call 1-800-4-cancer and talk to a person about your questions.
If you (or a friend, relative, or family member) are facing leukemia I would really recomend talking to the people at the Cancer institute and your doctor. They can answer all your questions and explain everything to you.
Peace!