Safety considerations for transplanting cryopreserved ovarian tissue to restore fertility in female patients who have recovered from Ewings sarcoma

Future Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 277-283

  Sørensen, Stine D ^a   Greve, Tine ^a   Wielenga, Vera Timmermans ^a   Wallace, W Hamish B ^b   Andersen, Claus Yding ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ewings sarcoma; fertility preservation; ovarian cryopreservation; ovarian metastasis; ovarian tissue transplantation

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; VINCRISTINE;

CANCER CELL; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE FERTILITY; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; HUMAN; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; OVARIAN RESERVE; OVARY FUNCTION; PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAFETY; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM SEEDING; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARY; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK; SARCOMA, EWING;

EID: 84893847020     PISSN: 14796694     EISSN: 17448301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fon.13.183     Document Type: Review

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