Fertility preservation in cancer patients: The global framework

Cancer Treatment Reviews

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1019-1027

  Linkeviciute, Alma ^a,b   Boniolo, Giovanni ^a,b   Chiavari, Leonora ^b   Peccatori, Fedro A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cancer patients; Counselling; Cryopreservation; Decision support; Fertility preservation

Indexed keywords

AGE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVOR; CANCER THERAPY; CIVIL UNION; CONSULTATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEAR; FERTILITY; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KNOWLEDGE; LEGAL ASPECT; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; OVARIAN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; OVARIOPEXY; PARENTHOOD; PATIENT; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PERSONAL VALUE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REIMBURSEMENT; REVIEW; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SPIRITUAL CARE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

CANCER PATIENTS; COUNSELLING; CRYOPRESERVATION; DECISION SUPPORT; FERTILITY PRESERVATION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COUNSELING; FEMALE; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE;

EID: 84904798273     PISSN: 03057372     EISSN: 15321967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctrv.2014.06.001     Document Type: Review

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