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Article: Freezing Eggs of Cancer Patients.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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Female cancer patients and other women at risk of losing their fertility because of medical treatments can help preserve their childbearing options through a new egg-freezing program at Stanford (Calif.) University Medical Center. Under it, women ages 18 to 40 who are undergoing chemotherapy, radiation, or surgical removal of the ovaries can choose to have their eggs retrieved before treatment and then stored indefinitely in a freezer for possible future fertilization.
"A lot of people don't realize that there are things we can do that may help future fertility," indicates Lynn Westphal, assistant professor of gynecology and obstetrics and director of the medical ...