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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2020

Human Ovarian Cortex biobanking: A Fascinating Resource for Fertility Preservation in Cancer.

Erica Silvestris, Giuseppe De Palma, Stefano Canosa, Simone Palini, Miriam Dellino, Alberto Revelli, Angelo Virgilio Paradiso

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Erica SilvestrisGynecologic Oncology Unit, IRCCS Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", 70124 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7415-5986
Giuseppe De PalmaInstitutional BioBank, Experimental Oncology and Biobank Management Unit, IRCCS Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", 70124 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6108-096X
Stefano CanosaGynecology and Obstetrics 1, Physiopathology of Reproduction and IVF Unit, Department of Surgical Sciences, S. Anna Hospital, University of Torino, 10042 Torino, Italy.
Simone PaliniIVF Unit, Cervesi Hospital Cattolica, Cattolica, AUSL Romagna, 47841 Cattolica, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2445-6518
Miriam DellinoGynecologic Oncology Unit, IRCCS Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", 70124 Bari, Italy.
Alberto RevelliGynecology and Obstetrics 1, Physiopathology of Reproduction and IVF Unit, Department of Surgical Sciences, S. Anna Hospital, University of Torino, 10042 Torino, Italy.
Angelo Virgilio ParadisoInstitutional BioBank, Experimental Oncology and Biobank Management Unit, IRCCS Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", 70124 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6495-2295
Istituto Tumori Bari · ITOspedale Cervesi di Cattolica · IT

Funding

IRCCS Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", Bari 5 per mille 2016
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Novel anti-cancer treatments have improved the survival rates of female young patients, reopening pregnancy issues for female cancer survivors affected by the tumor treatment-related infertility. This condition occurs in approximately one third of women of fertile age and is mainly dependent on gonadotoxic protocols, including radiation treatments. Besides routine procedures such as the hormonal induction of follicular growth and subsequent cryopreservation of oocytes or embryos, the ovarian protection by gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists during chemotherapy as well as even gonadal shielding during radiotherapy, other innovative techniques are available today and need to be optimized to support their introduction into the clinical practice. These novel methods are hormone stimulation-free and include the ovarian cortex cryopreservation before anti-cancer treatments and its subsequent autologous reimplantation and a regenerative medicine approach using oocytes derived in vitro from ovarian stem cells (OSCs). For both procedures, the major benefit is related to the prompt recruitment and processing of the ovarian cortex fragments before gonadotoxic treatments. However, while the functional competence of oocytes within the cryopreserved cortex is not assessable, the in vitro maturation of OSCs to oocytes, allows to select the most competent eggs to be cryopreserved for fertility restoration.

Indexed as

Biological Specimen BanksFertility PreservationOvaryCryopreservationFemaleHumansInfertility, FemaleNeoplasmsOocytesOrgan TransplantationStem CellsStem Cell Transplantationcryopreservationgonadotoxicityoncofertilityovarian cortexovarian stem cellstissue biobanking

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PMID32375324
PMCPMC7246700
OpenAlexW3023248273

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