Professionals' view on the issues and challenges arising from providing a fertility preservations service sperm banking to teenage males with cancer

Human Fertility

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-30

  Crawshaw, Marilyn ^a   Glaser, Adam ^b   Hale, Juliet ^c   Sloper, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Northumbria University Coach Lane Campus   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Fertility preservation; Sperm banking; Teenage males

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD CANCER; FERTILITY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL WORK; SPERM DONOR; SPERM PRESERVATION; UNITED KINGDOM; COUNSELING; NEOPLASM; PARENT;

ADOLESCENT; COUNSELING; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PARENTS; SEMEN PRESERVATION;

EID: 2342446060     PISSN: 14647273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1464727042000198087     Document Type: Article

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