Preserving the fertility of children with cancer

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 185, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 532-533

  Greenberg, Mark L ^a,b   Urbach, Stacey L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSULFAN; CHLORMETHINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FOLLITROPIN; IFOSFAMIDE; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; PREDNISONE; PROCARBAZINE; VINCRISTINE SULFATE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ASPIRATION; AUSTRALIA; AZOOSPERMIA; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CRYOPRESERVATION; DRUG EXPOSURE; EDITORIAL; FAMILY COUNSELING; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENSTRUATION; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NEW ZEALAND; OOCYTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREGNANCY; PREPUBERTY; PUBERTY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SARCOMA; SCHOOL CHILD; SPERM PRESERVATION; TESTIS BIOPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33751424409     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00684.x     Document Type: Editorial

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