To preserve or not to preserve: How difficult is the decision about fertility preservation?

Cancer

Volumn 119, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 4044-4050

  Mersereau, Jennifer E ^a   Goodman, Linnea R ^a   Deal, Allison M ^b   Gorman, Jessica R ^c   Whitcomb, Brian W ^d   Irene Su, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer; decisional conflict; fertility preservation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVOR; CONSULTATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OVARY CANCER; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

CANCER; DECISIONAL CONFLICT; FERTILITY PRESERVATION;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84887058023     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.28317     Document Type: Article

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