A Decade of Social Fertility Preservation

The global phenomenon of deferment of conception is due to a variety of reasons including increased opportunities for women in education and careers, high divorce rate and economic instability [1]. With this growing tendency toward delayed reproduction, there is an increase in the age of the sub fertile community and a growing demand for Assisted Reproductive Techniques (ART) [2] by women who falsely assume that it can restore their fertility at any age. Subsequently more women in their late thirties and older are requiring fertility services [3], increasing the treatment demands worldwide. For instance in the USA in the year 2011, women 35-40 years of age represented 41.2% of the total IVF cycles volume, where as those older than 40 years represented 14.5% suggesting that most of the treated population in the United States were women older than 35 years of age [4].