Fertility and cancer - A qualitative study of Australian cancer survivors

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1259-1265

  Penrose, Rebecca ^a   Beatty, Lisa ^a   Mattiske, Julie ^a   Koczwara, Bogda ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cancer treatment; Fertility concerns; Survivorship

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO SEXUALITY; AUSTRALIA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GERM CELL TUMOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFERTILITY; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PROFESSION; OVARY CANCER; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TESTIS CANCER;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; SURVIVORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863980503     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-011-1212-y     Document Type: Article

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