Pregnancy after breast cancer: If you wish, ma'am

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 309-317

  Pagani, Olivia ^a   Partridge, Ann ^b   Korde, Larissa ^c   Badve, Sunil ^d   Bartlett, John ^e   Albain, Kathy ^f   Gelber, Richard ^g   Goldhirsch, Aron ^h,i  

^a ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^f LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^g HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^h Swiss Center for Breast Health   (Switzerland)

ⁱ EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast feeding; Fertility; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GOSERELIN; LETROZOLE; METHOTREXATE; TAMOXIFEN;

AMENORRHEA; BREAST CANCER; BREAST FEEDING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CRYOPRESERVATION; DELIVERY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXPECTATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FERTILITY; FETUS OUTCOME; GONADAL DISEASE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FUNCTION; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; OVULATION INDUCTION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT SAFETY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TERATOGENICITY; TREATMENT DURATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PREGNANCY; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 80052646666     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-011-1643-7     Document Type: Review

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