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An evaluation of the Gifu Model in a trial for a new regional oncofertility network in Japan, focusing on its necessity and effects

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Reproductive Medicine and Biology

Abstract

Purpose

We evaluated our 2-year experience of the regional oncofertility network in Gifu Prefecture (GPOFS) in order to establish a more sophisticated regional oncofertility networking model in Japan.

Methods

Questionnaires were distributed twice in January 2013 to 57 departments in 35 hospitals that provide cancer treatment in Gifu Prefecture, before the establishment of the regional oncofertility network. The number and type of disease of the referred adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer patients who visited the oncofertility clinic in Gifu University Hospital via the GPOFS were analyzed.

Results

The majority of regional oncologists are aware of the need to provide information about oncofertility to their patients, but they cannot provide sufficient information due to their lack of knowledge about reproductive medicine. Eighty-one AYA patients were referred to our clinic for oncofertility counseling in the first 2 years after the establishment of the GPOFS.

Conclusions

The GPOFS as the first regional oncofertility network in Japan has just started and may be working to help both AYA cancer patients and their oncologists. The nationwide establishment of the regional oncofertility network model could help both AYA cancer patients and oncologists.

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  1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-6-1 Yanagido, Gifu, Gifu, 501-1194, Japan

    Tatsuro Furui & Ken-ichiro Morishige

  2. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gifu University Hospital, Gifu, Japan

    Tatsuro Furui, Motoki Takenaka, Hiroshi Makino, Keiko Terazawa, Akio Yamamoto & Ken-ichiro Morishige

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Furui, T., Takenaka, M., Makino, H. et al. An evaluation of the Gifu Model in a trial for a new regional oncofertility network in Japan, focusing on its necessity and effects. Reprod Med Biol 15, 107–113 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12522-015-0219-3

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