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Outline of talk: key points
• Which cancer treatments can affect female fertility, and how • Ovary
• Uterus
• Hypothalamus/pituitary
• Evidence for effects on female reproductive function • Surrogate markers
• Fertility
• Reproductive lifespan
Improving survival: minimising ‘late effects’
polychemotherapy reduces the annual breast cancer death rate by 38%
Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group. Lancet 2005;365:1687.
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