Embryo cryopreservation, egg freezing, and ovarian tissue...
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5´th Aarhus Workshop in Breast Surgery 2016
Embryo cryopreservation, egg freezing, and ovarian tissue freezing before
chemotherapy
Erik Ernst, Professor,MD, Ph.D.
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics Aarhus University Hospital DK 8210, Aarhus, Denmark
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Conflict of interest
None
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Reasons for fertility preservation
• Gonadotoxic treatment regimes for cancer – chemotherapy, radiation e.g. before bone marrow
transplantation • or
Facing premature ovarian failure or
• Childbearing delayed to later in life –social reasons
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Well-established methods
• Embryo cryopreservation
• Ovarian transposition
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Less well-established methods (some would say still experimental)
• Oocyte cryopreservation
• Ovarian suppression
• Ovarian tissue freezing
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Risk of inducing detrimental effects on the gonad
Chemotherapy and gonadotoxicity
v The specific chemotherapeutic drug used
v Dose of chemotherapy
v Duration of chemotherapy
v Age of woman
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Gonadotoxic Drugs
v Alkylating agent Cyclophosphamide Chlorambucil Mustine Melphalan Busulfan Carmustine Lomustine
v Antimetabolites Cytarabine
v Vinca alkaloids Vinblastine
v Others Procarbazine Cisplatin
The ovaries are especially susceptible to alkylating agents
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Candidates for ovarian cryopreservation
• Cancer patients e.g. lymphomas Hodgkin, non-Hogkin, Breast
cancer, Ewing sarcoma, Wilms tumor
• But also
• Autoimmune diseases e.g. acute glomerulonephritis, Behcet´s disease, SLE
• Endometriosis • Premature ovarian insufficiency – Turner patients
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Methods
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Embryo cryopreservation
Standard IVF procedure 2-3 weeks treatment before ovum pick-up
(this delay acceptable in most cancers) But not applicable in children or very young females Demands use of semen from husband or use of donor sperm Pregnancy rate per transfer between 20-30%
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Ovarian transposition
• In genital, intestinal, or urinary tract malignancies – often pelvic radiation
• Metaanalysis not conclusive – menstrual cycles – time to pregnancy studies lack
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Experimental methods?
At least less well-established methods
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Oocyte cryopreservation
Techniques improved significantly the last 5-6 years
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Ovarian suppression
Suppression of folliculogenesis with gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists (GnRH-a)
90% of follicles are primordial –therefore unresponsive to GnRH-a
Randomized trials currently underway
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Ovarian tisssue freezing
In Denmark more than 870 since 2000 70 autotransplantations
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Half a human ovary
Corpus Luteum Follicles Corpus luteum
Small antral follicles
HALF HUMAN OVARY
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Only the ovarian cortex is cryopreserved
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Preparation of human ovarian tissue for cryopreservation
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Freeze-thawed mouse ovary implanted under the kidney capsule of an ovariectomized mouse for 2 weeks
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TheDanishModel:”Thewomanstays–the-ssuemoves”
Malmø
Transport box
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Rationale:
Transport ovarian cryopreservation
v Establish a possibility for women who may otherwise be deprived the chance of ovarian cryopreservation v Centralize the service of this relative seldom performed procedure
v The ischemic period following transplantation reduces the follicle pool most dramatically
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Difficult to perform oocyte retrieval and
cryopreservation close to one another
Ovary two days after oocyte retrieval
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Following ovarian stimulation the ovarian
cortex is very fragile
Ovary two days after oocyte retrieval
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Diagnosis No. Diagnosis No.
Breastcancer 280 Invasivemole 5
Mb.Hodgkin,Non-Hodgkin 173 Thallasaemia 5
Colon-Rectumcancer 16 BRCA1-gene 2
Leukaemia(AML,ALL,CML) 61 AplasMcAnaemia 12
Ewing’s&othersarcomas 74 SLE 6
ReproducMvesystem,incl.Ovarian&Cervicalcancer 81 Sexanomaliesincl.Turner
syndrome 9
Variousothers 46 OtherDieseases 38
Diagnosisforcryopreserva-onofovarian-ssue
inDenmark:cumula-ve(October2015)
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61 deceased patients 14% of the cohort
24 children/37 women
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breast Hodgkin Sarcoma leukemia others
diagnosis
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Clinicalresults-transplantaMon
• Laparoscopy/mini-laparotomy• Orthotopic(ovary)• Heterotopic(sub-peritonealonanteriorabdominalwalland
lateralpelvicwall)
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Orthotopic transplantation of ovarian tissue
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Heterotropic transplantation to a subperitoneal pocket
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Diagnosis Women TransplantaMon Pos.hCGClin.Preg.
Children
Total Transport
Breastcancer 20 23 17 9 9 3
Mb.Hodgkinlymphoma 9 13 9 4 3 2
Non-Hodgkinlymphoma 5 9 3 5 2 1
Cervicalcancer 5 6 6
AplasMcanaemia 3 3 1 1 1 1
Sarcomaincl.Ewing 5 5 4 3 3 3ParoxysMcNocturnalHaemoglubinuri
2 2 0 1 1 1
Ovariancancer 1 1 1 2 2 2
Coloncancer 1 1 1 2 22x
(2ndtri.Abor.)Analcancer 1 1 1Variousothers* 6 6 6 3 3 2Total 58 70 49 30 26 15
OutcomeandnumberofDanishwomentransplantedwithfrozen/thawedovarian-ssueaccordingtodiagnosis(Jan2016)
*) Wegenersgranulomatose,Mola,MorbusBehcet,Autoimmunevasculi-s,HUS,Thalassaemia
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Results
• All women have regained ovarian function • Puberty induced in a 13-year-old girl • Total 26 clinical pregnancies
– 15 deliveries (10 IVF/5 spontaneous) – 9 spontaneous abortions (1.trimester) – 1 spontaneous abortion (2.trimester) – 1 legal abortion (spontaneous pregnancy)
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Questions to be answered
v Longevity of ovarian grafts
v Effectivity whereby fertility is restored
v Safety of auto-transplantation
v When is a woman too old to have tissue cryopreserved
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Conclusions
• Ovarian cryopreservation is now a clinical option
• Safety is still unresolved but no relapses yet
• In combination with ART, results from Denmark suggests that ovarian cryopreservation is a robust way of preserving fertility in girls and young women
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