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Chapter 30 - Female Fertility Preservation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2019

By
Nikoletta Panagiotopoulou
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Jane A. Stewart
Jane A. Stewart
Affiliation:
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Summary

Fertility preservation, which is defined by the National Center for Biotechnology Information as ‘a method of providing future reproductive opportunities before a medical treatment with known risk of loss of fertility’ (1), aims to mitigate the long-term effects of gonadotoxic treatment. Current evidence shows that timely fertility preservation counselling allows patients to better cope with the long-term effects of gonadotoxic treatment, including the potential for infertility (2). This chapter, thus, discusses the present status of fertility preservation in women and explores new developments in the field.

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Subfertility, Reproductive Endocrinology and Assisted Reproduction , pp. 227 - 232
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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