Acknowledgements

The editors and authors are grateful to all the patients who have inspired us to prepare this book and work together to improve their care.

The editors and authors are very grateful to Cancer Research UK (CRUK) for providing the funding to support this book. The editors, authors and publisher are most grateful to the Association of Cancer Physicians Executive for their support and advice during the development of this book.

We are very grateful to Duncan Enright at EBN Health for his expert work, support, goodwill and interest in our purpose in preparing the book, and Nicole Goldman, who coordinated and oversaw the book’s preparation and organization.

Dr Karapanagiotou, Dr Kopeika and Dr Mansi would like to acknowledge the support of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Board would like to acknowledge the support of the University of Manchester and Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Dr Archer would like to acknowledge the support of Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust. Dr Davies would like to acknowledge the support of University College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

The ‘Problem Solving’ series of cancer-related books is developed and prepared by the Association of Cancer Physicians (ACP), often in partnership with one or more other specialist medical organizations. In this particular book, our co-editors are representatives from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and have a specialist interest in fertility.

As the representative body for medical oncologists in the UK, the ACP has a broad set of aims, including education for our own members and for non-members, including interested clinicians, healthcare professionals and the public. The Problem Solving Series is a planned sequence of publications that derive from a programme of annual scientific workshops initiated in 2014 with ‘Problem Solving in Acute Oncology’ followed by ‘Problem Solving in Older Cancer Patients’, ‘Problem Solving through Precision Oncology’, ‘Problem Solving in Patient-Centred and Integrated Cancer Care’, ‘Problem Solving in Immunotherapy’ and ‘Problem Solving in Acute Oncology 2nd Edition’. ‘Problem Solving in Cancer and Fertility’ is the latest in the series.

The publication involves considerable work from members and other contributors and this work is done without remuneration, as an educational service. We have been delighted with the standard of the publications which have been well received. The BMA prize for Best Oncology Book of the Year was awarded to ‘Problem Solving in Older Cancer Patients’ in 2016, ‘Problem

Solving in Precision Oncology’ in 2017 and ‘Problem Solving in Patient-Centred and Integrated Cancer Care’ in 2018.

The ACP wishes to thank all the contributors to this book and our previous publications, and those which are yet to come.