10/06/2025
Freezing eggs or embryos can offer women facing a cancer diagnosis a lifeline to the family they dream of. Today’s advances in reproductive medicine provide empowering options for the future.
For women diagnosed with cancer who have not yet started chemotherapy or radiotherapy, gamete freezing offers hope. While these treatments can be harmful to eggs and may severely impact fertility, egg freezing allows women to preserve their ability to have children later.
In many cases, there is a window of time between surgery and chemotherapy during which the ovaries can be stimulated to retrieve and freeze eggs. For women with a partner—or those choosing donor sperm—embryos may also be frozen.
When the time comes to pursue pregnancy, we will prepare the uterus with hormones to receive the thawed eggs or embryos. Embryos are then transferred, and with continued hormonal support, pregnancy can develop.
A cancer diagnosis does not have to mean the end of fertility. With cryopreservation, women can hold onto the possibility of motherhood and a future filled with hope.
