What is an ART cycle?
Because ART consists of several steps over an interval of approximately 2 weeks, an ART procedure is more appropriately considered a cycle of treatment rather than a procedure at a single point in time. The start of an ART cycle is considered to be when a woman begins taking drugs to stimulate egg production or starts ovarian monitoring with the intent of having embryos transferred. (See Figure 3, for a full description of the steps in an ART cycle.) For the purposes of this report, data on all cycles that were started, even those that were discontinued before all steps were undertaken, are submitted to CDC through SART and are counted in the clinic’s success rates.
Because ART consists of several steps over an interval of approximately 2 weeks, an ART procedure is more appropriately considered a cycle of treatment rather than a procedure at a single point in time. The start of an ART cycle is considered to be when a woman begins taking drugs to stimulate egg production or starts ovarian monitoring with the intent of having embryos transferred. (See Figure 5, for a full description of the steps in an ART cycle.) For the purposes of this report, data on all cycles that were started, even those that were discontinued before all steps were undertaken, are submitted to CDC through a Web-based data collection system called the National ART Surveillance System (NASS) and are counted in the clinic’s success rates.
Because ART consists of several steps over an interval of approximately 2 weeks, an ART procedure is more appropriately considered a cycle of treatment rather than a procedure at a single point in time. The start of an ART cycle is considered to be when a woman begins taking drugs to stimulate egg production or starts ovarian monitoring with the intent of having embryos transferred. (See Figure 3, for a full description of the steps in an ART cycle.) For the purposes of this report, data on all cycles that were started, even those that were discontinued before all steps were undertaken, are submitted to CDC through SART and are counted in the clinics success rates.
