Clinical Outcome after Oocyte Cryopreservation
Fertility preservation is a rapidly developing branch of reproductive medicine, including gamete preservation (oocytes or spermatozoa) and reproductive tissue preservation (ovaries or testicles). Fertility preservation gives patients at risk of losing their reproductive capacity the ability to further conceive and have their own genetic child. The main beneficiaries of fertility preservation strategy are the cancer patients who undergo surgery, start chemotherapy or radiation therapy, or proceed with the other clinical treatments leading to premature menopause, and healthy women who just want to postpone childbearing. Main options for safeguarding women of their reproductive health include cryopreservation of oocytes or ovarian tissue. Read more