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Ethics of fertility preservation for prepubertal children: should clinicians offer procedures where efficacy is largely unproven?

Young children with cancer are treated with interventions that can have a high risk of compromising their reproductive potential. ‘Fertility preservation’ for children who have not yet reached puberty involves surgically removing and cryopreserving reproductive tissue prior to treatment in the expec...

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Autores principales: McDougall, Rosalind J, Gillam, Lynn, Delany, Clare, Jayasinghe, Yasmin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5749308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29084865
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2016-104042