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Freezing sperm and eggs gives young prostate cancer patients a hope

When a man hears the diagnosis prostate cancer, surgery needed, he is crushed that the treatment would destroy his ability to have more children.

Statistics show a growing number of young cancer patients freezing sperm and eggs in case surgery, chemotherapy and radiation end their reproductive futures. For men, it’s a fairly successful process.
In-vitro procedures involve extracting eggs from the woman and sperm from the man, then either mixing them in a petri dish or injecting sperm directly into eggs. The resulting embryo is then implanted in the womb. Babies have been conceived with frozen sperm since the 1950s, but the odds have risen as a result of a relatively new technique called intracytoplasmic sperm injection, in which a single good sperm is inserted into an egg.

Tags: fathering, man fertility