Fertility and Sexuality in Young Cancer Survivors Who Have Adult-Onset Malignancies

Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 291-303

  Fosså, Sophie D ^a,b   Dahl, Alv A ^a,b  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CANCER THERAPY; FERTILITY; FOLLOW UP; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; ONSET AGE; OVARY CANCER; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUALITY; TESTIS CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; NEOPLASMS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS;

EID: 41349107371     PISSN: 08898588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hoc.2008.01.002     Document Type: Review

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