Fertility Preservation After Illness in Dallas, Texas
As the success rates for cancer treatments continue to rise, more and more patients are living long, active lives. While cancer treatments have allowed patients to survive at higher rates, they also can have a negative impact on fertility. Fertility Preservation for Women Before Cancer Treatment Chemotherapy and radiation have both been shown to negatively affect the fertility of both men and women, often damaging eggs and possible leaving the woman infertile. Freezing a woman’s eggs, or embryos created using sperm from her partner or an anonymous donor, can provide women with the chance to have a biological child in the future. Fertility Preservation Process: Fertility specialists of CRE (previously SIRM-Dallas) will induce the maturation of the eggs and retrieve them as would be done for an IVF cycle If the patient does not have a partner, or would prefer not to use donor sperm, we would then freeze her eggs through a process called vitrification I