Fertility in female childhood cancer survivors

Endocrine Development

Volumn 15, Issue , 2009, Pages 135-158

  De Bruin, Marie L ^a   Van Dulmen Den Broeder, Eline ^b   Van Den Berg, Marleen H ^b   Lambalk, Cornelis B ^c  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Paediatric Oncology/ Haematology ^*  (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATING AGENT; BUSULFAN; CHLORAMBUCIL; CHLORMETHINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; LOMUSTINE; PROCARBAZINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; EARLY MENOPAUSE; EMBRYO; FEMALE FERTILITY; GONAD DYSFUNCTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; OOCYTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARIAN RESERVE; OVARY; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; OVULATION; POSTCOITAL TEST; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SARCOMA; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SURVIVOR; THERAPY EFFECT; UTERINE TUBE; UTERUS; UTERUS FUNCTION; ADULT; AGING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILD; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILITY; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESERVATION; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGING; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHILD; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; OVARY; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY; SURVIVORS;

EID: 66149088822     PISSN: 14217082     EISSN: 16622979     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000207613     Document Type: Review

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