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ArticleGeburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde2017

Fertility Preservation in Female Patients with Breast Cancer - a Current Overview.

Veronika Guenther, Ibrahim Alkatout, Wiebe Junkers, Dirk Bauerschlag, Nicolai Maass, Soeren von Otte

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Article in Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Veronika GuentherDepartment of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, UKSH Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
Ibrahim AlkatoutDepartment of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, UKSH Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
Wiebe JunkersUniversity Fertility Centre, Medical Care Centre, University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
Dirk BauerschlagDepartment of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, UKSH Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
Nicolai MaassDepartment of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, UKSH Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
Soeren von OtteUniversity Fertility Centre, Medical Care Centre, University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein · DEUniversity of Lübeck · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many premenopausal patients who develop breast cancer have not yet completed their family planning, so measures of fertility protection to preserve their fertile potential would be beneficial. Polychemotherapy causes irreversible damage to the ovarian follicles - irrespective of whether in a neoadjuvant or adjuvant setting - and this can sometimes result in permanent infertility. Depending on which cytostatic agents are used and on the age-related ovarian reserve of the woman, gonadotoxic risk must be classified as low, moderate or high. Options of fertility preservation include: a) cryopreservation of fertilised or unfertilised oocytes. After ovarian hyperstimulation, mature oocytes are retrieved by transvaginal follicle aspiration, after which they are cryopreserved, either unfertilised or on completion of IVF or ICSI treatment. During b) cryopreservation of ovarian tissue, about 50% of the ovarian cortex of one ovary is resected with the aid of a laparoscopic procedure and cryopreserved. The application of c) GnRH agonists as a medicinal therapy option is an attempt at endocrine ovarian suppression in order to protect oocytes, granulosa cells and theca cells from the cytotoxic effect of chemotherapy.

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breast cancercryopreservationfertility preservationGnRH agonistoocytesovarian tissue

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PMID29093602
PMCPMC5658233
OpenAlexW2765605283

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