Chemotherapy and fertility

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 379-390

  Blumenfeld, Zeev ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

chemotherapy; fertility preservation; GnRH agonist; gonadotoxicity; POF (premature ovarian failure)

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATING AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; BUSULFAN; CARBOPLATIN; CHLORAMBUCIL; CHLORMETHINE; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACARBAZINE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GOSERELIN; IFOSFAMIDE; MELPHALAN; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; PACLITAXEL; PREDNISONE; PROCARBAZINE; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE; VINCRISTINE SULFATE;

AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERGONADOTROPISM; INFERTILITY; LEUKEMIA; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; LYMPHOMA; METAPHASE; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PREPUBERTY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; NEOPLASMS; ORGAN SPARING TREATMENTS; OVARY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, NEOPLASTIC; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIMARY OVARIAN INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84860218739     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: 15321932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2011.11.008     Document Type: Article

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