Fertility Preservation Options for Women Undergoing Chemo- or Radiotherapy
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I am most pleased to introduce you to the Winter 2008 issue of Advancing Ob/Gyn. As has become our tradition, inside you will find reports of recent clinical developments and research in progress at Yale Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences. While we have many significant advances in our three mission areas of education, clinical care, and research, we have selected only those topics that we believe will be most relevant to you as medical professionals.
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As the efficacies of anticancer therapies were increase and quite efficient early diagnoses have been taken place in gynecological cancer, increased long-term survival of cancer patients and long-term complications of anticancer treatments are being encountered. The lost of ovarian reserve or function due to gonadal toxicity is the major problem that mainly focused. A wide range of new fertilit...
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Studies suggest that the ability to have biological children is of great importance to many people. The cancer and its treatment often pose a threat to fertility. Rates of permanent infertility and compromised fertility after cancer treatment vary and depend on many factors. Male infertility can result from the disease itself (best documented in patients with testicular cancer and Hodgkin’s lym...
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Cancer may be detected at any age and could affect children, and reproductive age women as well. In recent years, cancer treatment has become less destructive and more specific. As a result, survival rates and quality of life following successful treatment have continuously improved. Cancer treatment typically involves surgery, chemo- or radiation therapy, or the combinations of these. These in...
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