Fertility Preservation for Pediatric and Adolescent Patients With Cancer: Medical and Ethical Considerations

Many cancers presenting in children and adolescents are curable with surgery, chemotherapy, and/or radiotherapy. Potential adverse consequences of treatment include sterility, infertility, or subfertility as a result of gonad removal, damage to germ cells as a result of adjuvant therapy, or damage t...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Pediatrics (Evanston) 2020-03, Vol.145 (3), p.1
Hauptverfasser:	Klipstein, Sigal, Fallat, Mary E, Savelli, Stephanie
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Antineoplastic Agents - adverse effects Cancer Cancer Survivors Chemotherapy Child Counseling Cryopreservation Ethics Fertility Fertility Preservation - ethics Germ cells Humans Hypothalamus Infertility Infertility - etiology Insurance Coverage Insurance, Health Male Medical ethics Neoplasms - therapy Oocytes - cytology Patients Pediatrics Pituitary Preservation Radiation therapy Radiotherapy - adverse effects Reproductive technologies Reproductive technology Solid tumors Spermatozoa Sterility Surgery Teenagers Uterus
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