Optimizing fertility preservation for pre- and postpubertal males with cancer

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 274-285

  Wang, Jonathanh ^a   Muller, Charlesh ^a   Lin, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

andrology laboratory; ART; cancer; cryopreservation; male infertility; semen; sperm

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATING AGENT; BEVACIZUMAB; BUSULFAN; CETUXIMAB; CHLORMETHINE DERIVATIVE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ERLOTINIB; FOLLITROPIN; IMATINIB; IRINOTECAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MELPHALAN; PREDNISONE; PROCARBAZINE; VINCRISTINE SULFATE;

ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA; AZOOSPERMIA; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DNA DAMAGE; EJACULATION DISORDER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GERM CELL TUMOR; HODGKIN DISEASE; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; PREPUBERTY; RADIATION DOSE; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURE; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TESTIS FUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITRIFICATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; MANPOWER; NEOPLASMS; ONCOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; REPRODUCTION; TRENDS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; SPERM BANKS;

EID: 84879244337     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1345275     Document Type: Article

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