The effects of letrozole on ovarian stimulation for fertility preservation in cancer-affected women

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 606-610

  Checa Vizcaíno, Miguel A ^a,b   Corchado, Anna Robles ^a   Sastre I Cuadri, Margalida E ^a   Comadran, Mireia Gonzalez ^a   Brassesco, Mario ^b   Carreras, Ramón ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Centro de Infertilidad y Reproduccion Humana   (Spain)

Author keywords

breast cancer; fertility preservation; letrozole; non hormone dependent cancer

Indexed keywords

CETRORELIX; ESTRADIOL; LETROZOLE; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CRYOPRESERVATION; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NITRILES; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 84861811602     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2012.02.020     Document Type: Article

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