Fertility issues in patients with prostate cancer

BJU International

Volumn 102, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 793-795

  Steinsvik, Eivind A ^b   Fosså, Sophie D ^a,b,c   Lilleby, Wolfgang ^b   Eilertsen, Karsten ^b  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Paternity; Prostate cancer; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CASTRATION; COUNSELING; CRYOPRESERVATION; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; PATERNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT DURATION;

BRACHYTHERAPY; COUNSELING; FERTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 50949084787     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2008.07739.x     Document Type: Article

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