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Cancer & Fertility Preservation
American Fertility Centers (afc) offer a fertility preservation service to protect and preserve your fertility for the future. You might consider fertility preservation if
- You have a serious illness such as cancer that will potentially risk damage to your eggs or sperm from chemotherapy, radiotherapy or other treatments, including surgery.
- Because your age is advancing, but you are not ready or able to have a baby right now.
Egg Freezing
There are many reasons that a woman may decide to freeze her eggs for future use. More women today are deciding to freeze their eggs because they are not yet ready to start a family. Like many women your age you may be establishing your career, paying off your student loan or just haven’t met the right partner. Freezing your eggs can relieve some of the pressure you may be feeling.
In other cases women are freezing their eggs for medical reasons including:
- Losing an ovary to surgery
- Having a disease, like stage V endometriosis, that can diminish egg reserve
- Having a medical condition that requires taking medication that is toxic to eggs
- Having to take high doses of testosterone medication
- Having a family history of premature menopause
- Testing positive for low egg reserve
Freezing your eggs now lets you take charge of your fertility by preserving your eggs when they are the most fertile and gives you options for creating your family in the future.
Sperm Freezing
If you need to have treatment for cancer that may affect your fertility, there are options available to ensure you can still have children in the future. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy can affect your sperm production – sometimes this is temporary but in other cases it may be permanent. Once your treatment begins, it may be too late to collect and preserve your sperm as it may already carry genetic damage. So, we strongly recommend you contact our Andrology Unit before commencing any cancer treatment. Before you begin chemotherapy or radiotherapy treatment, some of your semen, containing sperm, can be frozen and kept until you wish to start a family.
Men who have to travel overseas or work in dangerous situations or low Sperm count may also want to have their sperm frozen for use in the future.
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