Racial, socioeconomic, and demographic disparities in access to fertility preservation in young women diagnosed with cancer

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 4579-4588

  Letourneau, Joseph M ^a   Smith, James F ^a   Ebbel, Erin E ^a   Craig, Amaranta ^a   Katz, Patricia P ^a   Cedars, Marcelle I ^a   Rosen, Mitchell P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

access; breast cancer; cancer; disparities; fertility; fertility preservation; Hodgkin disease; infertility; leukemia; non Hodgkin lymphoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH DISPARITY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEOPLASM; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PATIENT COUNSELING; PELVIS SURGERY; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURE; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SOCIAL STATUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865982398     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26649     Document Type: Article

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