Chemotherapy is a procedure  used to treat all types of cancers including ovarian, uterine and breast cancer. In chemotherapy, you may be given medicines that will enter your blood stream and start circulating in your body to uproot the cancer cells.

Menstrual Cycle

Chemotherapy may affect your menstrual cycle to a large extent. When used against ovarian cancer, the chemotherapy can lead to low production of eggs or even completely stop the production of eggs.

When the egg production is affected, your menstrual cycle is likely to go haywire or may completely stop.

What Can You Do…

When your menstrual cycle is affected and once your chemotherapy treatment is complete, you may be put on medicines to initiate the egg production again or for severe cases you may have to undergo a hormone replacement therapy (HRT).

Here is All about Hormone Replacement Therapy

Remember, that the treatment on initiating the menstrual cycle again depends on how severe the cancer was and also on your age.

Conceiving

When your menstrual cycle gets affected, your chance of conceiving also gets affected. Because of irregular menstrual cycle and lack of egg production, you may be considered infertile for conceiving.

However, do not worry you can conceive by getting Your Cycle On Track.

Uterine cancer is the one that can stop you from conceiving. This is because your uterus undergoes lot of strain especially during chemotherapy and can be very weak to carry a pregnancy.