Fertility Preservation Program for Cancer Patients

• Treatment that directly affects the reproductive organs.
• Surgery that removes the uterus, fallopian tubes or ovaries.
• Radiation treatment directed at cancer in the abdomen.
• For information on how cancer treatments affect fertility, please visit the HTTPS://WWW.LIVESTRONG.ORG.

When you consider fertility preservation, it is critical that you choose the proper fertility center to support you. In fact, not all physicians are equal when it comes to egg freezing and fertility preservation. When selecting a fertility doctor, you probably want someone who is experienced, however, the experience needed for successful egg freezing actually has to do with the lab that your fertility center has.

• You should only consider fertility centers that do egg freezing with vitrification. Vitrification is a new process of “flash-freezing” your eggs to improve the thaw-survival rate. Older methods produced a lot of ice crystallization, which can damage eggs and lead to miscarriages, implantation failure, and other pregnancy complications.
• Additionally, you want a center that has local storage, on site, preferably. Some fertility clinics send preserved eggs and sperm all over the country, and the world, for long term storage. Having egg and sperm storage on-site means that the moment you want to try to become pregnant, you can, without having to wait.
• Choose a fertility doctor with a good track record of success. It isn’t enough to just be good at preserving fertility. To ensure your future happiness, you want to find a fertility center that has a history of successfully thawing eggs and sperm that lead to healthy, live-birth babies. These statistics are publically available and you should ask your center how to find out how many babies have been born from frozen eggs. New Hope has had over 1000 babies born from frozen embryos since their doors first opened!
• Choose a fertility program that has been preserving fertility 8+ years. The average person who is preserving either eggs or sperm keeps their samples on ice for about 7 years. After 7 years, the IVF process will take a minimum of 1 month (frequently more) and will be followed by 9 months of pregnancy. That adds up to about 8 years from the time you freeze, to the time you have a child. You should only consider fertility centers that have been freezing eggs for at least 8+ years. Anything less than that and you cannot be sure that their results will be what you are counting on.

New Hope Fertility Center helped pioneer modern Egg Freezing with Vitrification and was the first center to offer it in the United States in 2004. With such a long history of preservation and ongoing research into the newest techniques, New Hope is a proud to be an option for pre-treatment LIVESTRONG Fertility patients and regular post-treatment patients.

• EGG FREEZING– This is the process of retrieving your eggs and freezing them for use after you receive the cancer-free notification from your doctor
• OVARIAN TISSUE FREEZING– Ovarian Tissue freezing is a state-of-the-art fertility preservation technique. This is the process of preserving part of your ovarian tissue for later maturation or transplant. This is potentially an option for children who don’t have fully developed ovaries.
• COMPLETE OVARIAN PRESERVATION– Still quite new, the world recently has seen its first baby born from an entire cryopreserved ovary, removed from a child. The ovary was transplanted back when the patient matured and is fully functioning.
• SPERM FREEZING– Sperm Freezing is the process of extracting and cryopreserving sperm for post-treatment IVF.