Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Increased childhood cancer survival has resulted in an accruing cohort faced with potential infertility. We have previously shown that sperm cryopreservation is acceptable to 70–80% of adolescents and testicular volume, LH and testosterone concentrations positively predict success in ~33% that bank. However, little is known about semen characteristics in relation to age and puberty. Here, we present data on our subcohort of 79 boys who produced a semen sample ...