Cancer patients, gametes, gonadal tissue, and the UK legal status

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 8-10

  Bahadur, Gulam ^a   Whelan, Jeremy ^b   Davies, Melanie C ^a   Ralph, David ^c  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^c MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cancer; fertility; gamete; gonad; Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act; licence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHROMOSOME; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYOLOGY; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; FERTILIZATION; GAMETE; GERM CELL; GONAD; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MITOSIS; OOCYTE; OVARY TISSUE; OVULATION; PATIENT COUNSELING; POLAR BODY; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TESTIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85006375481     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)62181-5     Document Type: Article

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