Cancer

New findings from Leiden University in the area of cancer published

Published in State and Local Health Law Weekly, November 27th, 2008

"Cancer treatments for young women can permanently or temporarily affect fertility. The purpose of this retrospective analysis was to present the clinical experience and ethical considerations of fertility preservation in female oncology patients in a tertiary gynaecological department," scientists in Netherlands report.

"Since 2002, in 37 patients fertility preservation was performed according to an institutional review board approved protocol in a University hospital in the Netherlands; 33 patients were not treated. Embryo cryopreservation was performed in 10 patients, ovarian tissue cryopreservation in 24, and an ovarian transposition was performed in 3 patients; in...

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Source: State and Local Health Law Weekly (2008-11-27)

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