Why was ovarian cryopreservation developed?
setTopicVideo(); –> Ovarian cryopreservation was born out of a desire to preserve fertility in cancer patients. “Over the last 20 years the issue of fertility in cancer patients has become more important because the rate of cancer survivors has increased dramatically,” says Dr. Dror Meirow, IVF specialist of Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Israel. Treatments such as chemotherapy, radiation, and bone marrow transplants have done wonders by sending certain cancers into remission, but the downside is that these lifesaving regimens may damage—often permanently—organs vital to reproduction. Many patients may even stop menstruating after treatment. Sentencing a cancer survivor to infertility is devastating, so doctors set about developing ovarian cyropreservation as a way to combat this fate.
