A Clinically Comprehensive Ethical Framework for Offering and Recommending Cancer Treatment before and during Pregnancy

Cancer

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 215-222

  Chervenak, Frank A ^a   McCullough, Laurence B ^b   Knapp, Robert C ^a   Caputo, Thomas A ^a   Barber, Hugh R K ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENEFICENCE; CANCER THERAPY; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE FERTILITY; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LIVING WILL; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; BENEFICENCE; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; FETAL VIABILITY; FETUS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; OBSTETRICS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, NEOPLASTIC;

EID: 0346724527     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.11564     Document Type: Review

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