Abstract:Fertility is an important component of quality of life and oncological patients should be questioned about their expectations before treatment. Radiotherapy (RT) can adversely affect fertility irreversibly and progressively. Therefore, patients with expectation of fertility should be evaluated before RT and guided for appropriate interventions. Radiotherapy negatively affects fertility in many aspects. Cranial RT disrupts the hypothalamus-pituitary-ovarian (H-P-O) axis, pelvic RT directly affects the ovary and… Show more
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