You just learned your child has cancer, and now you must quickly absorb a barrage of information and make fast treatment decisions. But before you move ahead, consider another life-changing decision: Do you want to preserve your child’s fertility?
Many cancer treatments affect fertility in girls and women. With ovarian tissue freezing and transplantation, you can preserve your reproductive ability and restore your fertility following remission.
Some women choose to freeze their eggs for medical reasons, while others want to hold off on family building while they pursue other aspects of life. Fortunately, there are options to preserve your fertility until you’re ready.
Dr. Oktay, Annie, and Heather discuss ovary freezing and Annie’s personal experience with this procedure.
At two weeks old, the human embryo has only just begun its months-long journey to become a baby.
But before Annie started treatment, she walked out of the doctor’s office and crossed the street to see a fertility doctor doing an experimental procedure that sounded like science fiction: ovary freezing.
Dr. Oktay's innovative ovarian transplant on a cancer survivor is featured in Newsday.
Welcoming a baby after battling cancer is possible with modern fertility preservation options. Saving and protecting eggs, sperm, and reproductive tissue can help individuals have children after treatment ends.
If you’ve been trying to conceive a child to no avail, you have numerous options. Intracytoplasmic sperm injection is a revolutionary assisted-reproduction technique that can boost your chances of fulfilling your dream to have a child.
You underwent tubal ligation thinking you were done with family-building, but new circumstances are such that you want to reverse the procedure. Here’s a look at what you can expect with tubal ligation reversal.
Ovulation induction is an infertility treatment that can help women who do not ovulate on their own. This hormone therapy stimulates ovulation and increases the chances of becoming pregnant.
Surrogacy can be an extremely fulfilling experience that completes families. It requires commitment from both parties. Intended parents take this journey after receiving surrogacy counseling and making an informed decision.
Many women want the option to delay childbearing for personal, professional, and social reasons. Fertility treatment like egg freezing puts the power back in your hands to decide when to become pregnant.
Struggles to get to the clinic? Trying to reduce your exposure to COVID-19, as well as other contagious illnesses, and still need to see your doctor? Telehealth is safe and easy — receive quality care from anywhere.
Procedure’s success in monkeys is potential breakthrough for boys undergoing cancer treatment
Dr. Oktay featured in an article published by The Daily Beast and special guest on Radio Lab, discussing his groundbreaking ovarian tissue freezing and transplantation procedure performed recently.
Fertility preservation means you can maintain your ability to biologically parent a child even after gender reassignment procedures interrupt your body’s ability to reproduce. There are some points to consider about the impact of fertility preservation.
There was a time when having a child after 40 was almost unheard of. These days, however, it’s becoming increasingly common as medical and reproductive science have opened up the opportunities for older women to have children. Here’s what you should know.
Fertility treatment can be particularly demanding for women, as they’re the ones who undergo the most invasive IVF procedures and often carry the most stress, both physically and emotionally. Read on to learn how you can help your partner navigate the stre
Carrying extra pounds not only raises the risk of complications during and after pregnancy, but the weight may make it harder to conceive in the first place. Obesity reduces fertility for both women and men. Here's how high BMI interferes with fertility.
'This is longer than I've ever heard of, and it just shows that if you store them right, embryos could last for decades or hundreds of years,' Dr Oktay told Daily Mail Online
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Dr. Oktay was recently featured in a Daily Mail article titled, "Cancer survivor, 26, undergoes first-ever ovary operation by a ROBOT to implant her ovarian tissue which was frozen 11 years ago"
Ovarian tissue that was frozen a decade ago was implanted recently in a 25-year-old cancer survivor who hopes that reviving the tissue from suspended animation will allow her to start a family.
"Women should freeze their ovaries rather than their eggs to save their fertility, experts claim."
The list of things that can be created with 3-D printers keeps getting longer: jewelry, art, guns, food, medical devices and, now, mouse ovaries....
From Chasing News, "While most kids at 16 are learning how to drive and worried about what to wear to prom, Stephanie Gallagher of Pompton Plains NJ is going through menopause and worried about her fertility."
From thew New York Post
In an article published by Clinical Endocrinology News and featuring Dr. Okay, girls with Turner syndrome may have hope when it comes to having a baby of their own with experimental fertility preservation.
Fertility Preservation Options for Females with Turner Syndrome Are Growing: A new article by Dr. Oktay and colleagues reviews options and provides guidelines.
Study Records First-Ever Successful Pregnancies with New Ovarian Transplant Surgery in Two Tri-State Area Women.
This newborn is the first baby in the world born using a breakthrough IVF treatment..
"Most women who want elective egg freezing present themselves at not an ideal age"
For the first time, in Fertility and Sterility, researchers present age-specific probabilities of live birth after IVF with frozen eggs.
Read the NY Post article on Dr. Oktay's study on egg freezing success rates and pregnancy rate estimator....
A better alternative to open surgery for removal of fibroids is avlaparoscopic or robotically assisted myomectomy, which is performed through several keyholes in the abdomen.
Sometimes plans change after you have your tubes tied.
Fertility specialist Kutluk Oktay, M.D., identifies factors that diminish a woman’s ability to repair ovarian eggs
Before giving up on IVF with your own eggs or your partner’s sperm a thorough evaluation is needed.
While ovulation induction ensures a larger selection of eggs and embryos, the fertility medications can be costly.
Fertility Preservation (FP) is a new field in medicine developed with the purpose of helping women, men and children overcome the complications of infertility associated with chemo and radiation therapy.
We thrive for most compassionate care and utilize all proven cutting edge technologies, some developed by us, to maximize your chance of having a baby.
World’s Most Comprehensive Fertility Preservation Procedures from a Pioneer
Dr. Oktay’s team publishes world’s first age specific egg freezing success rates.
Study published in Science Translational Medicine, covered in Science, Nature and many news outlets around the world.
Dr. Oktay discovers that women’s eggs age due to declining DNA repair, important clinical implications.
Dr Oktay speaks on Fertility Preservation on women with breast cancer, Toronto, Canada.
This technique does not require ovarian stimulation and can be performed in children and adults with short notice.
