Restoring Fertility in Cancer Survivors: Ovarian Tissue Cryopreservation or Assisted Reproduction Technique

Human Ovarian Tissue Cryopreservation as Fertility Reserve

Vitrification: An Emerging Technique for Cryopreservation in Assisted Reproduction Programmes

Ovarian tissue banking for cancer patients: fertility preservation, not just ovarian cryopreservation.

While ovarian tissue cryopreservation has commonly been equated with fertility preservation in cancer patients, there is a range of alternative options to preserve fertility. Based on the type and timing of chemotherapy, the type of cancer, the patient's age and the partner status, a different strategy of fertility preservation may be needed. If the patient has a partner or accepts donor sperm,...

Methods for preserving fertility in young women suffering from cancer: some aspects of ovarian tissue cryopreservation.

1Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 2Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 3Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, and 4University Centrum of Reproductive Medicine of the 1st Department of Gynecolog...

Fertility preservation in pre-pubertal girls with cancer: the role of ovarian tissue cryopreservation.

With the increasing numbers of survivors of cancer in young people, future fertility and ovarian function are important considerations that should be discussed before treatment commences. Some young people, by nature of the treatment they will receive, are at high risk of premature ovarian insufficiency and infertility. For them, ovarian tissue cryopreservation (OTC) is one approach to fertilit...