The hypothesis that the "down-regulated" gonad is less vulnerable to the effects of cytotoxic chemotherapy for advanced Hodgkin's disease has been investigated. Thirty men and eighteen women were randomly allocated to receive an agonist analogue of gonadotrophin-releasing hormone prior to, and for t
Preserving fertility in Hodgkin's disease
β Scribed by Jonathan Waxman
- Book ID
- 114307969
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 342 KB
- Volume
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0950-3536
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## Fertility preservation after chemotherapy for Hodgkin lymphoma To the Editor I have read with great interest the recent review by Marleen AE van der Kaaij et al. ; the authors are congratulated for their fine review. There is, however, a small mistake in reporting the results of Waxman et al.