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Egg freezing is a wonderful option for a variety of patients.
First and foremost, those infertility couples who have ethical concerns about freezing embryos.
This provides a wonderful option because we’re preserving their ability to get pregnant with their own eggs that are harvested at the time of in vitro fertilization without having the ethical concerns of freezing embryos.
The second group of patients that this applies to are cancer patients and those women that have disease processes that are going to compromise their fertility and their future.
This allows us to harvest their eggs and freeze them.
Once they survive their disease process, moving on with their life, they’re going to have a wonderful opportunity to come back and use these eggs in the future.
The last group of patients that this really applies to are those single women in their 30s, late 20s, who are developing careers, who are single, do not have a partner, and are not ready to have children at this point in their lives.
Women lose their fertility typically during their 30s and early 40s. Freezing their eggs earlier in life allows them to come back, use them when they’re ready to have children,
and it gives them a wonderful opportunity to preserve their fertility and have children with their own eggs.