Home > Cancer > Fertility and Breast Cancer Get the Flash Player to see this player. Rate: (Click the stars to rate) Published on Sep 10, 2008 by JOShaughnessy, Views: 1582 Dr. Joyce O'Shaughnessy, an oncologist, discusses the issue of fertility and breast cancer patients. The major issue is whether or not the cancer is estrogen receptor positive or negative. Chemotherapy can bring on early menopause, but even in this case, women do have options. We deal with this problem commonly. Sometimes women just want to make sure they will be able to get pregnant after they have treatment for breast cancer. JACKSONS 4.8 years ago