Caring for Pregnant Patients with Cancer: A Framework for Ethical and Patient-Centred Care

A Linkeviciute, R Canario, FA Peccatori, K Dierickx - Cancers, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Cancer treatment during pregnancy can raise many difficult questions.
Currently available clinical practice guidelines offer very limited ethical guidance for …

Elective oocyte cryopreservation for deferred childbearing

KN Goldman, JA Grifo - Current Opinion in Endocrinology …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Oocyte cryopreservation provides women with an option to defer childbearing and maintain
reproductive autonomy, with IVF success rates on par with fresh IVF. However, it is critical …

Fate, morals and rational calculations: freezing eggs for non-medical reasons in Turkey

A Kılıç, İ Göçmen - Social Science & Medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
This article aims to explore women's decisions to freeze their eggs for non-medical reasons
in Turkey. It draws on semi-structured interviews conducted with twenty-one women who …

Egg freezing experiences of women in Turkey: from the social context to the narratives of reproductive ageing and empowerment

İ Göçmen, A Kılıç - European Journal of Women's Studies, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This article explores egg freezing experiences of women in Turkey. Since 2014, it has been
legal in Turkey to use egg freezing technology for ageing women, while it was previously …

Philosophical health: Unveiling the patient's personal philosophy with a person‐centred method of dialogue

L De Miranda, M Loughlin - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Grounded in ideas about sense‐making and whole‐person care with a long intellectual
heritage, the movement for Philosophical Health—with its specific conceptions of …

Healthcare professionals' attitudes and practice of sexual health care: Preliminary study for developing training program

SH Ahn, JH Kim - Frontiers in public health, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Health professionals contribute toward addressing the sexual health care (SHC) of cancer
patients, given the frequency of contact with their patients. This study investigated nurses' …

Medical and elective fertility preservation: impact of removal of the experimental label from oocyte cryopreservation

SB Schon, M Shapiro, C Gracia, S Senapati - Journal of Assisted …, 2017 - Springer
Purpose The purpose of this study was to compare baseline characteristics and ovarian
stimulation outcomes between patients presenting for medically indicated vs. elective fertility …

Exploring Medical Egg Freezing as a Disease Management Strategy

Y Pérez-Hernández - Medical anthropology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Medical egg freezing (MEF) allows women with fertility-threatening diseases to have their
oocytes cryopreserved and stored for later use. Endometriosis is a common gynecological …

Mature oocyte cryopreservation for fertility preservation

T Liang, T Motan - Biobanking and Cryopreservation of Stem Cells, 2016 - Springer
In recent decades, advances in cancer treatment have led to a dramatic improvement in long
term survival. This has led to an increasing focus on quality of life after surviving cancer …

Mapping ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of fertility preservation

I Alon, I Bussod, OC Golan, V Ravitsky - Journal of Assisted Reproduction …, 2024 - Springer
Research question The study examines the ethical, legal, and social implications of fertility
preservation, highlighting its importance across oncofertility, elective egg freezing, and …