Ive been diagnosed with cancer and need chemotherapy but still want to have children later. Am I a viable candidate for egg or sperm freezing?
• Yes, those life saving treatments may render you unable to get pregnant in the future. Thanks to cryopreservation, you may fulfill your dream of parenthood once youre well again. • For detailed information on the reproductive risks of various chemotherapies and radiation treatments, see the Risk Calculator page at Fertile Hope.org. Your oncologist and reproductive specialist will work as a team to guide you in making the decision.What risks am I taking by freezing my eggs? The eggs your ovaries produce may not survive the freeze/thaw process. Eggs that are successfully thawed may not fertilize adequately. Transferred embryos may not implant and create a pregnancy. The first successful pregnancy in the United States from a frozen egg occurred in 1997. By now, studies of embryos from frozen egg cells have demonstrated no increased rates of aneuploidy (chromosomal abnormality) or malformations, and children born have been found to develop normally. References: American Society for Repro
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- Ive been diagnosed with cancer and need chemotherapy but still want to have children later. Am I a viable candidate for egg or sperm freezing?
- I’ve been diagnosed with cancer and need chemotherapy but still want to have children later. Am I a viable candidate for egg or sperm freezing?
- Ive been diagnosed with cancer and need chemotherapy but still want to have children later. Am I a viable candidate for egg or sperm freezing?
