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Blumenfeld, Z. et al.

Zeev Blumenfeld, Irith Avivi, Ari Eckman, Ron Epelbaum, Jacob M. Rowe, Eldad J. Dann,

Gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist decreases chemotherapy-induced gonadotoxicity and premature ovarian failure in young female patients with Hodgkin lymphoma.

OBJECTIVE: To minimize the gonadotoxic effect of chemotherapy by the cotreatment with a GnRH agonistic analogue (GnRH-a). DESIGN: Prospective nonrandomized study with concurrent and historical controls. SETTING: University medical center. PATIENT(S): One hundred fifteen female patients with Hodgkin lymphoma (HL). INTERVENTION(S): Sixty-five patients received a monthly injection of GnRH-a, administered before starting chemotherapy until its conclusion, up to a maximum of 6 months. Thirty-five patients were treated with ABVD and 76 with a procarbazine-containing regimen. This group was compared with a control group of 46 women who were treated concurrently with similar chemotherapy (n = 26) without GnRH-a or were historical controls (n = 20). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Cyclic ovarian function (COF) versus premature ovarian failure (POF). RESULT(S): The ovarian function could be determined in 111 patients. In the GnRH-a/chemotherapy group, 63 out of 65 patients resumed ovulation and regular menses (96.9 %), compared with 63% of the 46 control subjects. Twenty of the 22 patients in the BEACOPP/escalated BEACOPP/GnRH-a cotreatment resumed cyclic ovarian function versus 9 of the 14 in the chemotherapy-only group. All 17 MOPP/ABV/GnRH-a cotreated patients resumed COF versus 11 of the 22 in the chemotherapy-only group. There was no significant effect of the GnRH-a cotreatment regarding COF in the ABVD group. There were no significant differences in the cumulative doses of the various alkylating agents between the two groups. CONCLUSION(S): Cotreatment with GnRH-a may reduce ovarian damage significantly in female patients treated for HL and should be considered in addition to assisted reproduction for women in reproductive age receiving gonadotoxic chemotherapy.[1]

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Gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist decreases chemotherapy-induced gonadotoxicity and premature ovarian failure in young female patients with Hodgkin lymphoma. Blumenfeld, Z., Avivi, I., Eckman, A., Epelbaum, R., Rowe, J.M., Dann, E.J. Fertil. Steril. (2008) [Pubmed]

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