Cryopreservation, a process of utilizing low temperatures to preserve living cells and tissues for long periods of time, is being used to keep young cancer patients’ sperm or ovaries intact. hereandnow
Now, several hospitals around the country are offering parents of some patients the option of taking steps to preserve those kids' ability to reproduce decades down the line.She says the future fertility of a cancer patient is put at risk from chemotherapy, radiation or sometimes surgery.
So Morley and two other physicians, both pediatric and adolescent gynecologists, use cryopreservation — a process of utilizing low temperatures to preserve living cells and tissues for long periods of time — to keep young cancer patients’ sperm or ovaries intact. Morley says the program sees about 30 to 40 patients a year.
And so far, the research looks promising. “For ovarian [cryopreservation], there have been live births through the process of reimplantation,” she says. “I just think it gives me hope that someday he'll be a young man that’s ready to choose a partner and that he has this opportunity if he wants to be a dad — if he wants to be a biological father — that he might have the opportunity to do that,” Avello says.
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