Best fertility female Preservation and egg in Raipur

If you need to have therapy for cancer or a serious illness when you are younger, you may be concerned about the potential risks to your future fertility. The impact can be temporary or permanent, and in come cases could result in infertility.If it is a gynaecological cancer, you may need surgery to remove the tumours and it may also be necessary to remove the ovaries and/or uterus and fallopian tubes.

If you require chemotherapy, this not only destroys cancerous cells – it can also damage your eggs. The risk of infertility resulting from chemotherapy is related to your age, the specific chemotherapeutic agents used, the dose administered, and the length of time the drugs are used.

Radiotherapy is like chemotherapy in that while acting to destroy rapidly dividing cancer cells, it can also act on healthy cells. When radiotherapy is conducted on the pelvic region, it can bring on an early menopause.

You have several options before commencing cancer treatment, including:

freezing embryos, freezing ovarian tissue, freezing mature eggs, and taking a medication to protect your ovaries during chemotherapy.

Your doctor will take into account the type of cancer you have, your treatment plan, your age and circumstances when they recommend your course of action.

Freezing embryosYou can undergo IVF treatment prior to commencing chemotherapy or radiotherapy, and any resulting embryos can be frozen for future pregnancy attempts, even years later.  We recommend freezing several embryos given current survival and development rates.

Embryos tolerate freezing considerably better than ovarian tissue or egg freezing, and subsequently have a greater chance of survival, with higher pregnancy rates.  The pregnancy success rate depends usually on the age of your eggs at the time of treatment. 

Ovarian tissue freezingThis involves removing a small piece of ovarian tissue from one ovary, cutting it into tiny slices and then freezing. Later, when you are ready to conceive, the ovarian tissue slices are grafted back into your pelvis. Around nine months later, the grafted ovarian tissue can start to produce reproductive hormones and follicular development.

Pregnancy may be achieved either with ovarian stimulation and IVF, or perhaps even naturally.

Further research and experimental work needs to be completed before this will be routine clinical treatment; at present we still consider this to be experimental.

Freezing eggsWhile embryo and sperm freezing are well-recognised infertility treatments, with many thousands of babies born as result, egg freezing is a relatively new option for women who want to preserve their fertility. However, our research into this area is very promising.

For women who undergo this procedure, eggs are collected during an IVF cycle and are frozen, sometimes for many years.  When the woman is ready to use her eggs, they are thawed and fertilised with sperm. A healthy fertilised egg will develop into an embryo, which may then be transferred to the woman’s uterus, with a subsequent chance of pregnancy.

Depending on your circumstances, you may have enough time before starting your chemotherapy or radiotherapy to have more than one cycle of hormone stimulation and egg retrieval.  This ensures that you have a reasonable number of eggs to freeze and therefore an increased chance of a future pregnancy.

Fertility preservation for social reasonsAge-related infertility in women is one of the most common issues presented to fertility specialists each day when trying to help patients become pregnant.

At IVFAustralia, we recognise that for some women childbearing has been unavoidably delayed. Your most fertile years are your 20s and early 30s, when the ovaries still contain a large number of healthy eggs. For the 10 to 15 years before menopause, even if you have regular monthly periods, the ovarian function deteriorates. This is especially so for women in their 40s.

So if you want to have a child in the future, but have not had the opportunity during your most fertile years, then freezing your eggs for use in the future – when you have met the right partner, or are ready to start your family – may be an option for you. 

Success rates As the technique for egg freezing is relatively new, it is not possible to give precise figures for the chance of pregnancy after freezing. We do know that the success rates for pregnancy using frozen sperm or frozen embryos are higher, as there is a higher percentage of fluid in the egg that complicates the thawing process.

However, we have had success with a newly developed technique called Cryotop. This involves very rapid freezing in a tiny amount (less than 0.1 microlitres) of a special vitrification solution, before storing in liquid nitrogen. This process prevents ice crystals forming, which damage the cellular infrastructure of the egg. 

Other factors, especially the woman’s age when her eggs are frozen, have an important effect on the chance of pregnancy: the younger the woman, the better the chance. Egg freezing in women over the age of 38 would be expected to have a lower chance of pregnancy.