Reproductive 'choice' and egg freezing

Cancer Treatment and Research

Volumn 156, Issue , 2010, Pages 223-235

  Petropanagos, Angel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AGING; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CAREER; CONCEPTION; CRYOPRESERVATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MENOPAUSE; MORALITY; MOTHER; OOCYTE; OVARY; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PARENTHOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ORGAN PRESERVATION; OVUM; REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS;

EID: 77956357523     PISSN: 09273042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6518-9_17     Document Type: Review

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