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Egg-freezing technique 'is safe' A method of storing human eggs which allows women to postpone motherhood is as safe as conventional IVF treatment, research suggests. A Canadian study, published in the journal Reproductive Biomedicine Online, looked at 200 children conceived using "vitrified" eggs. [ Visit Website ] BBC News, Jun 21, 2008 Saving eggs before undergoing chemo As if facing cancer wasn't enough, young women who undergo chemotherapy face the prospect of losing their fertility. Their eggs, bombarded with noxious chemicals, lose their viability. While embryo freezing is well-recognized -- that's the freezing of eggs mixed with sperm -- women without partners with whom to produce embryos may be left without the ability to ever have children. A new, investigational process, however, is being offered to such women. It's aimed at freezing unfertilized eggs extracted before chemotherapy treatment. [ Visit Website ] http://www.miamiherald.com, Apr 2, 2008 Saving eggs of young women with cancer As if facing cancer weren’t enough, young women who undergo chemotherapy face the prospect of losing their fertility. Their eggs, bombarded with noxious chemicals, lose their viability. [ Visit Website ] The Kansas City Star, Mar 31, 2008 CAREER WOMEN LEAVE EGG FREEZING TOO LATE Career women in their twenties who want to delay motherhood should freeze their eggs, according to fertility experts. Professor Siladitya Bhattacharya will tell members of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists at a debate in London tomorrow that women still have no control over the right time to have a baby. [ Visit Website ] This is London, Nov 29, 2007 Egg freezing too new to market Egg freezing is still too experimental a procedure to be offered or marketed as a way to allow healthy women to hedge their bets and extend their reproductive lives, two American organizations representing professionals in the fertility field cautioned Tuesday. [ Visit Website ] THE CANADIAN PRESS, Nov 18, 2007 Fertility Therapies Under the Microscope As medical science continues to churn out ever-more-sophisticated methods to treat infertility -- from egg freezing to genetic screening of embryos -- desperate would-be parents rush to embrace the latest techniques. But some fertility experts worry that procedures of limited benefit are unfairly raising patients' hopes. [ Visit Website ] The Wall Street Journal Online, Nov 18, 2007 ABC News Report: Egg freezing (Video) ABC News Report: Dr Carlene Elsner from Reproductive Biology Associates, Atlanta talks about egg freezing. ABC News, Nov 3, 2007 Healthy women warned over egg freezing Healthy women should not rely on freezing their eggs as a way of preserving their fertility, a leading US fertility organisation is warning. Meanwhile, the largest study to date of children born from frozen eggs suggests the procedure does not threaten child health as feared. [ Visit Website ] New Scientist, Oct 21, 2007 Freezing eggs, embryo test experimental: U.S. group Two experimental fertility procedures -- preserving a woman's eggs by freezing them and testing an embryo for genetic flaws by sampling a single cell -- remain unproven, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine advised on Tuesday. [ Visit Website ] Reuters, Oct 20, 2007 ASRM Urges Caution, Strong Counseling for Women Seeking Egg Freezing The Practice Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine today issued a committee opinion saying that oocyte cryopreservation, or egg freezing, remains an experimental procedure that should not be offered or marketed as a means to defer reproductive aging. [ Visit Website ] ASRM, Oct 17, 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
