title: Technology application to assist young survivors with fertility concerns.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To provide an overview of the relationship of communication technology with cancer and fertility concerns; a brief description of one example of a project for young breast cancer survivors; a profile of women who participated in the project; and a consideration of the future role of oncology nurses in developing and utilizing technology to address cancer and fertility concerns.
  
  
  METHODS
  Literature, experiential original data.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Communication technology provides an ever increasing array of tools, but it is the oncology nurse who is in a pivotal position to maximize the benefits that patients realize through the use of such supportive technologies.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Oncology nurses are in a pivotal position to assure that communication technologies are appropriately used to provide access to evidence-based information about cancer and fertility.
authors.affiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Health Professions, 1530 Third Ave South, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA. mcneesp@uab.edu
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: McNees
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000451:nursing* / Q000628:therapy; D020407:Internet; D008875:Middle Aged; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009859:Oncology Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D027724:Reproductive Techniques, Assisted / Q000451:nursing*; D017741:Survivors