Endocrine Abstracts

Fertility preservation is an increasingly important aspect of clinical care for many patient groups. For children and young adolescents, this is most commonly offered to those who are due to receive gonadotoxic therapies such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy. For pubertal patients at risk of infertility, it may be possible to obtain sperm for cryopreservation from a semen sample or via surgical sperm extraction prior to gonadotoxic therapy. For prepubertal patients, the option...