Egg/Sperm Freezing
Fertility preservation offers couples or individuals the opportunity to preserve their ability to have children in the future by freezing their eggs or sperm.
Preserving Options for Cancer Patients
We work closely with you and your cancer treatment team to optimize your post-treatment fertility. We recognize the importance of acting quickly once a decision is made and will accelerate our normal scheduling to meet with you within 48 hours of your first call to our office.
Egg freezing
- Our vitrification process, or “flash freezing,” provides higher egg survival and pregnancy rates than the traditional slow-freezing method.
- Typically, women between the ages of 21 and 37 are good candidates for egg freezing. Women over the age of 37 are evaluated on an individual basis and treated based on established protocol.
- Egg freezing is combined with in vitro fertilization (IVF) when parents are ready to start a family.
Sperm Freezing
- Sperm samples can be frozen indefinitely at -196°C and stored at our on-site Reproductive Studies Lab.
- Sperm freezing is combined with either intrauterine insemination or in vitro fertilization.
Delaying Parenthood
Egg and sperm freezing are options for younger men and women who aren’t yet ready to start a family but wish to do so at a later date.
Egg freezing
- Our vitrification process, or “flash freezing,” provides higher egg survival and pregnancy rates than the traditional slow-freezing method.
- Typically, women between the ages of 21 and 37 are good candidates for egg freezing. Women over the age of 37 are evaluated on an individual basis and treated based on established protocol.
- Egg freezing is combined with in vitro fertilization (IVF) when parents are ready to start a family.
Sperm Freezing
- Sperm samples can be frozen indefinitely at -196°C and stored at our on-site Reproductive Studies Lab.
- Sperm freezing is combined with either intrauterine insemination or in vitro fertilization.