- Title:
- Fertility preservation for age-related fertility decline
- Journal:
- Lancet. 2014 Oct 4;384(9950):1311-9
- Author(s):
- Dominic Stoop, Ana Cobo, Sherman Silber
- Author(s) affiliation:
- Centre for Reproductive Medicine, UZ Brussel, Brussels, Belgium. Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
IVI Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
Infertility Center of St Louis, St Luke's Hospital, St Louis, MO, USA
- Short description:
- Cryopreservation of eggs or ovarian tissue to preserve fertility for patients with cancer has been studied since 1994 with R G Gosden's paper describing restoration of fertility in oophorectomised sheep, and for decades previously by others in smaller mammals. Clinically this approach has shown great success. Many healthy children have been born from eggs cryopreserved with the Kuwayama egg vitrification technique for non-medical (social) indications, but until now very few patients with cancer have achieved pregnancy with cryopreserved eggs.
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- Abstract:
- Cryopreservation of eggs or ovarian tissue to preserve fertility for patients with cancer has been studied since 1994 with R G Gosden's paper describing restoration of fertility in oophorectomised sheep, and for decades previously by others in smaller mammals. Clinically this approach has shown great success. Many healthy children have been born from eggs cryopreserved with the Kuwayama egg vitrification technique for non-medical (social) indications, but until now very few patients with cancer have achieved pregnancy with cryopreserved eggs.
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