Title |
Fertility preservation healthcare circuit and networks in cancer patients worldwide: what are the issues?
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Published in |
BMC Cancer, February 2018
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DOI | 10.1186/s12885-018-4046-x |
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Authors |
Kathleen Melan, Frederic Amant, Jacqueline Veronique-Baudin, Clarisse Joachim, Eustase Janky |
Abstract |
Fertility preservation (FP) is a major determinant of quality of life after cancer remission for women who may not have achieved their ideal family size. This article describes the FP services and strategy currently available, highlighting issues of oncofertility worldwide. For these patients in complex situations, health networks are essential to improve coordination of care, and the strengthening of this coordination is a major challenge to improve the performance of the health system. Two international networks have been created in order to foster scientific exchange between countries and to standardize the oncofertility healthcare circuit. However, the paucity of referral nationwide networks lead to a structural gap in health care policies. Management strategies of oncofertility in the world are still fragile and uneven. To structure the oncofertility sector, a multidisciplinary project allowing teams to collaborate is of utmost importance particularly in low and middle-income countries. |
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Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 100% |
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Student > Bachelor | 14 | 19% |
Student > Master | 7 | 10% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 10% |
Researcher | 6 | 8% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 7% |
Other | 14 | 19% |
Unknown | 20 | 27% |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 22 | 30% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 10 | 14% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 5% |
Unspecified | 4 | 5% |
Social Sciences | 4 | 5% |
Other | 9 | 12% |
Unknown | 20 | 27% |