Current situation and prospect of fertility preservation in male cancer patients

With the rapid development of tumor subjects and the advance of medical technology, tumor mortality is declining in spite of the increase in tumor incidence. The male survivors pay more and more attention to their prognosis to improve the quality of their life. In the meantime, whether they could produce their own offspring become the main concern of tumor patients with good prognosis. However, until now, male tumor patients, their relatives, different social sectors and even some of our health workers, haven't noticed the importance of fertility preservation and long-term fertility desires of male patients with tumor which will lead to declined or even irreversible sterility induced by the lack of fertility preservation before anti-tumor therapy. It's an important way to do fertility counseling, learn the risk of their treatment plans and choose the appropriate technique of fertility preservation which will improve prognosis quality of life of male tumor patients. This article will review the effects of tumor and the treatment on male fertility, their subjective needs and concerns, main methods for fertility preservation and the domestic and foreign research present situation. Key words: Neoplasms; Fertility; Editorial