Sperm-Banking an Effective Option of Preserving Fertility in Male Cancer Patients - 08/20/2007
A recent study conducted at Hamilton Health Sciences found sperm banking to be a viable and effective method of ensuring fertility in adolescents and young adult male cancer patients after treatment. The study encourages more use of sperm banking because it remains an underused option of preserving fertility in male cancer patients.
Cancer treatments such as radiation and chemotherapy may cause temporary or ever-lasting male infertility by affecting sperm production or ejaculation. This study to be published in the September’s issue of the journal Cancer, looked at the benefits of preserving sperm in order to give male cancer patients a chance to father biological children in the near future.
The lead author, Michael Neal, Laboratory Director at the Centre for Reproductive Care, and his colleagues, found that only 18 percent of the patients in the study chose to bank their sperm before treatment. From the patients who opted to use their frozen sperm after cancer treatment experienced a fertility success rate of 36 percent using intrauterine insemination (IUI) and 50 percent with in vitro fertilization (IVF).
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