Endocrine Abstracts

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Survival rates for patients with cancer have continuously increased over the past decade as a result of more advanced cancer treatment. As a consequence, adverse side effects of cancer therapy becomes an important health issue for these cancer survivors. Male sterility is a relative common side effect of cancer treatment. This adverse fertility effect is caused by gonadotoxic effects as the cancer treatments not only effectively kill cancer cells but also destroy the progenito...

Congenital gonadotropin-releasing hormone deficiency is a rare disorder characterized by incomplete or absent puberty and infertility. This condition is both clinically and genetically heterogeneous and presents with a broad spectrum of phenotypes ranging from mild to severe. This presentation will provide a review of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, including the clinical presentation of HH, a rational approach to evaluating HH patients, and an update on treatment options. In p...