Topic update: Effects of colorectal cancer treatments on female fertility and potential methods for fertility preservation

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 363-369

  O'Neill, Mary Teresa ^a   Ni Dhonnchu, Tara ^a   Brannigan, Ann E ^a  

^a MATER MISERICORDIAE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Colectomy; Colorectal cancer neoplasm; Colorectal surgery; Fecundity; Fertility; Fertility preservation; Infertility; Ovarian transposition

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; GONADORELIN AGONIST; OXALIPLATIN; SPHINGOSINE 1 PHOSPHATE;

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; COCHRANE LIBRARY; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CRYOPRESERVATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; EMBASE; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GERM LINE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; ILEOANAL ANASTOMOSIS; ILEORECTAL ANASTOMOSIS; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MEDLINE; MESH HEADING; OOCYTE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARIAN PRESERVATION; OVARIAN TISSUE CRYOPRESERVATION; OVARIAN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; OVARIAN TRANSPOSITION; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PELVIS SURGERY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE; PROCTOCOLECTOMY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; THERAPY EFFECT; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VAGINA DISEASE; VAGINA STENOSIS; VITRIFICATION;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE;

EID: 79952757906     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/DCR.0b013e31820240b3     Document Type: Article

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