Fertility Preservation Methods in Breast Cancer
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Fertility Preservation Methods in Breast Cancer.
Thanks to the recent advances in reproductive medicine, more and more young women with breast cancer may be offered the possibility of preserving their fertility. Fertility can be endangered by chemotherapy, by treatment duration and by patient's age at diagnosis. The currently available means to preserve a young woman's fertility are pharmacological protection with gonadotrophin-releasing horm...
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عنوان ژورنال: Breast Care
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1661-3805,1661-3791
DOI: 10.1159/000339671