The safety of transplanting cryopreserved ovarian tissue in cancer patients: A review of the literature

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 11-24

  Rosendahl, Mikkel ^a   Greve, Tine ^a   Andersen, Claus Yding ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cancer; Cryobiology; Fertility preservation; Leukaemia; Lymphoma; Minimal residual disease; Ovarian reserve; Ovarian tissue cryopreservation; Safety

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ANUS CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CELL INFILTRATION; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; COLON CANCER; CRYOPRESERVATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FREEZE THAWING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JUVENILE MYELOMONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; ORBIT TUMOR; OSTEOSARCOMA; OVARY; OVARY CANCER; PHILADELPHIA 1 CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CRYOPRESERVATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; OVARY; RISK FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84873058066     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: 15737330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-012-9912-x     Document Type: Review

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