Physicians' Undecided Attitudes Toward Posthumous Reproduction: Fertility Preservation in Cancer Patients with a Poor Prognosis

Journal of Supportive Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 160-165

  Quinn, Gwendolyn P ^a,b   Knapp, Caprice A ^c   Malo, Teri L ^b   McIntyre, Jessica ^b   Jacobsen, Paul B ^a,b   Vadaparampil, Susan T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTHUMOUS CONCEPTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RELIGION; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIANS; POSTHUMOUS CONCEPTION; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84862766598     PISSN: 15446794     EISSN: 1879596X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suponc.2011.09.006     Document Type: Article

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