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Human Fertility
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Original Articles

The novel use of fertility quality of life (FertiQoL) treatment subscale to assess treatment acceptability in social egg freezing

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Pages 447-455 | Received 21 Nov 2019, Accepted 02 Jul 2020, Published online: 03 Sep 2020

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