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Editorial 1 A patient perspective M.H. Johnson, S. Franklin Commentaries 4 Cassandra’s prophecy: why we need to tell the women of the future about age-related fertility decline and ‘delayed’ childbearing J. Everywoman 11 Cassandra’s prophecy: a psychological perspective. Why we need to do more than just tell women J. Boivin, L. Bunting, S. Gameiro 15 Cassandra’s prophecy: a response from a sex education perspective H. Dixon 17 Cassandra’s prophecy and the trend of delaying childbearing: is there a simple answer to this complex problem? Y. Khalaf 19 Cassandra’s prophecy: a public heath perspective T. Marteau 21 Cassandra’s prophecy: education, education, education S. Norcross 25 Cassandra’s prophecy: medic or mother? Exploring the relevance of age-related fertility decline to women in medicine A.A. Theodosiou 29 Fertility preservation consultation for women with cancer: are we helping patients make high quality decisions? F. Nawroth Obituary 31 Susan E. Lanzendorf (1958–2013): innovator, mentor, colleague S.A. Gitlin, D.L. Wright Reviews 33 Reproductive hormone concentrations in pregnancy and neonates: a systematic review E.A.M. Kuijper, J.C.F. Ket, M.R. Caanen, C.B. Lambalk 64 Is fibroid heterogeneity a significant issue for clinicians and researchers? D. Zhao, P.A.W. Rogers Mini-review 75 Stem cell therapeutic possibilities: future therapeutic options for male-factor and female-factor infertility? C.A. Easley IV, C.R. Simerly, G. Schatten Article Assisted Reproduction 81 Efficacy of a sperm-selection chamber in terms of morphology, aneuploidy and DNA packaging M. Seiringer, M. Maurer, O. Shebl, K. Dreier, G. Tews, S. Ziehr, G. Schappacher-Tilp, E. Petek, T. Ebner Cover Pictures Background: From A. Jedrusik, Ectogenesis: what could be learned from novel in-vitro culture systems? (Reproductive BioMedicine Online (2013) 26, see Figure 1, p. 557) Inset: From Palini et al., Genomic DNA in human blastocoele fluid (Reproductive BioMedicine Online (2013) 26, see Figure 2, p. 609) Reproductive BioMedicine Online Contents A journal devoted to rapid and peer-reviewed publishing on web and paper copy. Indexed and abstracted in Science Citation Index Expanded (also known as SciSearch), Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, MEDLINE, EMBASE and Chemical Abstracts. Also covered in the abstract and citation database SciVerse Scopus Ò . Full text available on SciVerse ScienceDirect Ò . Corrected impact factor = 2.308. Volume 27 number 1 July 2013

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Page 1: Contents

Editorial

1 A patient perspective

M.H. Johnson, S. Franklin

Commentaries

4 Cassandra’s prophecy: why we need to tell the

women of the future about age-related fertility

decline and ‘delayed’ childbearing

J. Everywoman

11 Cassandra’s prophecy: a psychological

perspective. Why we need to do more than just

tell women

J. Boivin, L. Bunting, S. Gameiro

15 Cassandra’s prophecy: a response from a sex

education perspective

H. Dixon

17 Cassandra’s prophecy and the trend of delaying

childbearing: is there a simple answer to this

complex problem?

Y. Khalaf

19 Cassandra’s prophecy: a public heath

perspective

T. Marteau

21 Cassandra’s prophecy: education, education,

education

S. Norcross

25 Cassandra’s prophecy: medic or mother?

Exploring the relevance of age-related fertility

decline to women in medicine

A.A. Theodosiou

29 Fertility preservation consultation for women

with cancer: are we helping patients make high

quality decisions?

F. Nawroth

Obituary

31 Susan E. Lanzendorf (1958–2013): innovator,

mentor, colleague

S.A. Gitlin, D.L. Wright

Reviews

33 Reproductive hormone concentrations in

pregnancy and neonates: a systematic review

E.A.M. Kuijper, J.C.F. Ket, M.R. Caanen,C.B. Lambalk

64 Is fibroid heterogeneity a significant issue for

clinicians and researchers?

D. Zhao, P.A.W. Rogers

Mini-review

75 Stem cell therapeutic possibilities: future

therapeutic options for male-factor and

female-factor infertility?

C.A. Easley IV, C.R. Simerly, G. Schatten

Article

Assisted Reproduction

81 Efficacy of a sperm-selection chamber in

terms of morphology, aneuploidy and DNA

packaging

M. Seiringer, M. Maurer, O. Shebl, K. Dreier,G. Tews, S. Ziehr, G. Schappacher-Tilp,E. Petek, T. Ebner

Cover PicturesBackground: From A. Jedrusik, Ectogenesis: what could be learned from novel in-vitro culturesystems? (Reproductive BioMedicine Online (2013) 26, see Figure 1, p. 557)Inset: From Palini et al., Genomic DNA in human blastocoele fluid (ReproductiveBioMedicine Online (2013) 26, see Figure 2, p. 609)

Reproductive BioMedicine Online ContentsA journal devoted to rapid and peer-reviewed publishing on weband paper copy.

Indexed and abstracted in Science Citation Index Expanded(also known as SciSearch), Current Contents/Clinical Medicine,MEDLINE, EMBASE and Chemical Abstracts.Also covered in the abstract and citation databaseSciVerse Scopus�. Full text available on SciVerseScienceDirect�. Corrected impact factor = 2.308.

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Article

Genetics and PGD

89 Karyotype determination and reproductive

guidance for short stature women with a hidden

Y chromosome fragment

D.-H. Cheng, F. Gong, K. Tan, C.-F. Lu,G. Lin, G.-X. Lu, Y.-Q. Tan

Articles

Female Infertility

96 Fertility preservation consultation for women

with cancer: are we helping patients make

high-quality decisions?

J. Kim, A.M. Deal, U. Balthazar,L.A. Kondapalli, C. Gracia, J.E. Mersereau

104 Mutational analysis of SKP2 and P27 inChinese Han women with premature ovarianfailureZ. Zhao, D. Wei, Y. Mu, Y. Qin, G. Li, L. Cui,Z.-J. Chen

Erratum

107 Erratum to ‘‘Modelling a risk classification

of aneuploidy in human embryos using

non-invasive morphokinetics’’ [Reprod.

BioMed. Online 26 (2013) 477–485]

A. Campbell, S. Fishel, N. Bowman, S. Duffy,M. Sedler, C.F.L. Hickman

Forthcoming papersAccepted articles due to appear in future issues ofReproductive BioMedicine Online� Katja Knez, Tomaz Tomazevic, Eda Vrtacnik-Bokal, Irma Virant-Klun: Developmental dynamics ofIMSI-derived embryos: a time-lapse prospective study� S.N. Nielsen, A.N. Andersen, K.T. Schmidt, C. Rechnitzer, K. Schmiegelow, J.G. Bentzen, E.C. Larsen: A10-year follow up of reproductive function in women treated for childhood cancer� Lixia Zhu, Qingsong Xi, Hanwang Zhang, Yufeng Li, Jihui Ai, Lei Jin: Blastocyst culture andcryopreservation to optimize clinical outcomes of warming cycles� Remzi Abali, Aytac Yuksel, Cevat Aktas, Cem Celik, Savas Guzel, Gamze Erfan, Onder Sahin: Decreasedovarian reserve in female Sprague–Dawley rats induced by isotretinoin (retinoic acid) exposure

Some of these papers are already published as Articles in Press at www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/14726483

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