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Fertility Preservation for Female Cancer Patients by Miyuki Harada; Yutaka Osuga is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Fertility Preservation for Female Cancer Patients about?
An improvement in the survival rates of cancer patients and recent advancements in assisted reproductive technologies have led to remarkable progress in oncofertility and fertility preservation treatments. Currently, for adults and postpubertal girls, oocyte or embryo cryopreservation is an established method. If their cancer treatment cannot be postponed for 2 weeks, ovarian tissue cryopreservation is offered as an experimental technique. For prepubertal girls, ovarian tissue cryopreservation is the only option. As for ovarian protection, there is insufficient evidence regarding the effectiveness of GnRH agonist in fertility preservation. In the past decade, the concept of fertility preservation for cancer patients has been rapidly spreading, but at present only a small part of young cancer patients receive fertility preservation services. It is partly because of the lack of adequate provision of information on fertility preservation and the lack of referral from oncology to the fertility clinic. In Japan, the clinical practice guidelines for fertility preservation in childhood, adolescent and young adult cancer patients was issued last year by the Japan Society of Clinical Oncolo
Who reads Fertility Preservation for Female Cancer Patients?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Medicine.
- Author
- Miyuki Harada; Yutaka Osuga
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)