1. PRESERVATION OF OVARIAN FUNCTION IN PATIENTS REQUIRING RADIOTHERAPY FOR PARA-AORTIC AND PELVIC HODGKINʼS DISEASE
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J. W. Baker, M. J. Peckham, D.W. Smithers, and Rustain Morgan
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Adult ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Disease ,Radiation Protection ,Ovarian function ,Pregnancy ,medicine ,Humans ,In patient ,Aorta, Abdominal ,Pelvic Neoplasms ,Hodgkin s ,business.industry ,Ovary ,Infant, Newborn ,Obstetrics and Gynecology ,Radiotherapy Dosage ,General Medicine ,Hodgkin Disease ,Menstruation ,Surgery ,Radiation therapy ,England ,Pelvic irradiation ,Female ,Lymph Nodes ,Radioisotope Teletherapy ,business ,Infertility, Female ,Follow-Up Studies - Abstract
Transposition of the ovaries to a midline position prior to para-aortic and pelvic irradiation was carried out in eight young women with Hodgkin's disease at the Royal Marsden Hospital between 1965 and 1970. Four of them resumed menstruation—one after 2 years' amenorrhœa. One became pregnant 6 years after irradiation for stage-IIIA Hodgkin's disease and gave birth to a normal child.
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- 1973
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