Fertility preservation for girls and young women with cancer: What are the remaining challenges?

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 614-616

  Wallace, W H B ^a   Barr, R D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATING AGENT;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EARLY MENOPAUSE; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HUMAN; MYELOABLATIVE CONDITIONING; NEOPLASM; PELVIS SARCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMA; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; NEOPLASMS; OVARY; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

EID: 78649357713     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: 14602369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dmq038     Document Type: Editorial

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