An international survey of contemporary practices towards fertility assessment and preservation in patients undergoing radical inguinal orchidectomy for testicular cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The study aims to assess current international clinician attitudes, practices and barriers towards fertility assessment and preservation in patients undergoing radical inguinal orchidectomy (RIO) for testicular cancer.

Materials and methods

An international online survey of urologists and urologists in training who perform RIO for testicular cancer was developed by the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) Sections of Andrology and Oncology and the British Urology Researchers in Surgical Training (BURST). The recruitment process used social media and the emailing lists of national urological societies. Responses were collected between 10/02/2021 and 31/05/2021 and stored using password-protected Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) database softwar

SUBMITTER: Kanthabalan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11090774 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature