Favouring maternity beyond diseases that once used to be considered as an obstacle to parenthood: this is an important project taking place in Lombardy at the IRCCS San Matteo in Pavia along with local university.

The Regional Minister for University, Research and Innovation Alessandro Fermi declared: "we look with great interest to the research applied in the health sector, which aims to make healthcare closer to people.- To reach this goal we aim at providing more effective care thanks to themany  researchers working in our hospitals."

Thanks to the initiative many young women and men, affected by different types of cancer affecting reproduction, may cryopreserve gametes.

It is an important starting point giving hopes concerning future life on the reproductive level, even though much still has to be done at targeted research. As such, likelihood to become parents even after cancer affecting reproduction has consequences on the quality of live of those patients who have been treated effectively.