Fertility Sparing Treatments in Young Patients with Gynecological Cancers

نویسندگان

  • Mojgan Karimi Zarchi
  • Azamsadat Mousavi
  • Mitra Modares Gilani
  • Esmat Barooti
  • Omid Amini Rad
  • Fatemeh Ghaemmaghami
  • Soraya Teimoori
  • Nadereh Behtas
چکیده

In 2005 there were an estimated 79,480 newly diagnosed cancer of female genital system in the US, approximately 28,910 women will die if these types of disease (Leitao and Chi, 2005). Today treatment of gynecologic cancer is possible through surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy which lead to high remission and long term survival rates. In these cured patients, quality of life is increasingly important meanwhile the ability to produce and raise normal children is considerable (Partridge, 2004).Nowadays delaying childbearing for social and financial reasons leads to more women suffering from fertility threats due to early-stage cancer being discovered (Maltaris, 2006). The patient may suffer from premature menopause and infertility which may impact her quality of life and self-

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تاریخ انتشار 2012