Gonadal Function and Fertility Among Survivors of Childhood Cancer

Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 739-749

  Antal, Zoltan ^a,b   Sklar, Charles A ^b  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Childhood cancer survivor; Fertility; Gonadal injury; Infertility; Pregnancy; Radiation

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATING AGENT; BUSULFAN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN B; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; PROCARBAZINE;

AZOOSPERMIA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; CHILDHOOD CANCER; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; FERTILITY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GERM CELL; GONAD DYSFUNCTION; GONAD FUNCTION; GONADAL DISEASE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MALE FERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; OVARY DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SURVIVAL RATE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHILD; NEOPLASMS; SURVIVOR;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, ALKYLATING; CHILD; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84947494403     PISSN: 08898529     EISSN: 15584410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecl.2015.08.002     Document Type: Review

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