Validity of self-reported fertility-threatening cancer treatments in female young adult cancer survivors.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Detailed cancer treatment information is important to fertility and pregnancy care of female young adult cancer survivors. Accuracy of self-report of treatments that impact fertility and pregnancy is unknown. This study assessed agreement between self-report and medical records on receipt of fertility-threatening treatments.

Methods

A national cohort study of female young adult cancer survivors reported cancer treatments via Web-based questionnaires. Primary cancer treatment records were abstracted. Self-reported exposure to fertility-threatening therapies (alkylating chemotherapy, stem cell transplant, pelvic radiation, hysterectomy, and/or oophorectomy) was compared to medical records. Logistic regression models estimated odds ratios (OR) for characteristics associ

SUBMITTER: Roberts SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5501745 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature