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Chapter 17 - Fertility-Saving Surgery for Gynecological Cancers

from Section 5 - Fertility Preservation Strategies in the Female: Medical/Surgical

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2021

By
Olivier Donnez ,
Jean-Claude Darmon ,
Jérémie De Troyer  and
Nicolas Sterkers
Edited by
Jacques Donnez  and
S. Samuel Kim
Jacques Donnez
Affiliation:
Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels
S. Samuel Kim
Affiliation:
University of Kansas School of Medicine
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Summary

Fertility preservation, especially in women of reproductive age undergoing gonadotoxic treatment, has become an important part of our practice. This is reflected in the increasing number of publications on the subject. A recent PubMed search yields 518 articles on fertility preservation published in the time period of 1980–2000 and 4,288 others between 2000 and 2017. Today, failure to discuss fertility preservation with young women scheduled to undergo radiotherapy or chemotherapy could be considered as malpractice.

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Fertility Preservation
Principles and Practice
 , pp. 187 - 196
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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