Clinical guideline

Fertility preservation and post-treatment pregnancies in post-pubertal cancer patients: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines†

Annals of Oncology · 2020
Lambertini M, Peccatori F, Demeestere I, Amant F, Wyns C, Stukenborg JB, et al. Annals of Oncology. 2020. 31:1664-1678
Study type
Clinical guideline
Study name
ESMO Fertility Preservation 2020
Design
Clinical guideline (ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines) prepared by the ESMO Guidelines Committee
Source
Annals of Oncology · 2020

In plain words

This guideline from the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) is about preserving fertility in people with cancer who have gone through puberty. It also covers pregnancy after cancer treatment has ended. If you would like to have children in the future, talk to your oncologist about this before starting treatment.

Study population

Post-pubertal patients with cancer, based on the title of the guideline. No further details are available in the PubMed record; they should be checked in the full text of the guideline.

Endpoints

The PubMed record has no abstract. Based on the title, the subject of the guideline is fertility preservation and post-treatment pregnancy in post-pubertal cancer patients.

Safety and side effects

No information is available in the PubMed record. For safety considerations, consult the full text of the guideline.

Clinical significance and place in guidelines

This document is an ESMO clinical guideline published in 2020. Because the PubMed record does not include an abstract or the text of the recommendations, the exact content of the recommendations and the levels of evidence must be extracted from the full text of the guideline. Whether the guideline is still current should also be checked.

Limitations

This card is based only on the bibliographic information of the PubMed record (no abstract). Recommendations and levels of evidence should be added after reading the full text of the guideline and confirmation by an oncologist.

This summary was prepared by the editorial team from the published paper; the original paper is the final reference. Read the original abstract on PubMed.