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REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE ONLINE
Volume 44, Issue 1, Pages 81-92Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2021.09.004
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Fertility; Immunotherapy; Reproduction; Small molecule inhibitor; Targeted cancer therapy
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Targeted cancer therapy plays an important role in improving survival outcomes for reproductive aged patients, but its effects on the female reproductive system are not well understood. Data-driven recommendations are needed to help clinicians counsel women on fertility issues.
Targeted cancer therapy is rapidly evolving the landscape of personalized health care. Novel approaches to selectively impeding tumour growth carry significant potential to improve survival outcomes, particularly for reproductive aged patients harbouring treatment refractory disease. Current agents fall within two classes: immunotherapy and small molecule inhibitors. These are collectively divided into the following subclasses: monoclonal antibodies; immunomodulators; adoptive cell therapy; treatment vaccines; kinase inhibitors; proteasome inhibitors; metalloproteinase and heat shock protein inhibitors; and promoters of apoptosis. The short-and long-term effects of these treatments on the female reproductive system are not well understood. As a result, clinicians are rendered unable to appropriately counsel women on downstream effects to their fertility. Data-driven consensus recommendations are desperately needed. This review aims to characterize the effect of targeted cancer therapy on the female hypothalamic-pituitary-ovary axis, direct ovarian function and conception.
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