Pregnancy in breast cancer survivors: A need for proper counseling

Breast

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 337-338

  Peccatori, Fedro A ^a   Azim Jr , Hatem A ^b  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; GONADOTROPIN DERIVATIVE; LETROZOLE; TAXANE DERIVATIVE;

ATTITUDE TO BREAST FEEDING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SURVIVOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH;

EID: 71949129474     PISSN: 09609776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.breast.2009.09.014     Document Type: Editorial

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