News & Media Appearances

Fertility Preservation Options for Children and Adolescents With Cancer

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?

Apr 22nd, 2022

What Is Ovarian Tissue Cryopreservation and Transplantation and How Successful Is the Procedure?

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.

Apr 1st, 2022

What Are the Chances of a Successful Pregnancy Using Frozen-thawed Oocytes?

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.

May 23rd, 2021

BONUS 168: Ovary Freezing - Podcast

Dr. Oktay, Annie, and Heather discuss ovary freezing and Annie’s personal experience with this procedure.

Aug 17th, 2018

The Primordial Journey - Podcast

At two weeks old, the human embryo has only just begun its months-long journey to become a baby.

Aug 8th, 2018

Fronads - Podcast

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.

Aug 8th, 2018

Article: "Life, Frozen In Time"

Dr. Oktay's innovative ovarian transplant on a cancer survivor is featured in Newsday.

Dec 20th, 2017

Can I Still Get Pregnant After Cancer?

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.

Jan 29th, 2022

All About Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI)

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.

Dec 1st, 2021

What Can I Expect During a Tubal Ligation Reversal?

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.

Oct 12th, 2021

Reasons You May Need Ovulation Induction

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.

Sep 7th, 2021

When to Consider Surrogacy and How to Choose the Right One

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.

Aug 15th, 2021

How Long Can the Eggs Be Stored?

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.

Jul 22nd, 2021

Telehealth: The Advantages of Telemedicine

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.

Mar 17th, 2021

New Hope for Fertility of Young Cancer Patients Using Frozen Testicular Tissue

Procedure’s success in monkeys is potential breakthrough for boys undergoing cancer treatment

Mar 23rd, 2019

Article: Ovary Freezing: The Next Frontier of Babymaking

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.

Jul 25th, 2018

Fertility Preservation in Transgender Individuals

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.

Apr 25th, 2018

What to Know About Pregnancy After 40

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.

Mar 29th, 2018

Helping Your Partner Through the Stress of IVF

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

Mar 16th, 2018

How Being Overweight Affects Fertility

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.

Feb 5th, 2018

Article: Woman gives birth to baby girl from a donated embryo that was frozen for 24 YEARS

'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

Dec 19th, 2017

From ACOG: "Hormonal Contraceptives May Increase Breast Cancer Risk, Study Suggests."

This post includes an article by ACOG with links to the news

Dec 7th, 2017

Article: "Cancer survivor, 26, undergoes first-ever ovary operation by a ROBOT to implant..."

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"

Nov 27th, 2017

Article: "Further developments in helping cancer survivors get pregnant"

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.

Nov 25th, 2017

Article: "Women should freeze OVARIES - not eggs - if they want to protect their fertility"

"Women should freeze their ovaries rather than their eggs to save their fertility, experts claim."

Jul 13th, 2017

Article: "Scientists One Step Closer To 3-D-Printed Ovaries To Treat Infertility"

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....

May 20th, 2017

Video: "16-Year-Old Fighting Early Menopause"

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."

May 12th, 2017

Article: "I experienced menopause at just 16 years old — but can freeze my fertility"

From thew New York Post

May 7th, 2017

Article: "For girls with Turner syndrome, experimental fertility preservation may offer the hope.."

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.

Apr 26th, 2017

Fertility Preservation Options for Females with Turner Syndrome Are Growing: A New Article By Dr. Ok

Fertility Preservation Options for Females with Turner Syndrome Are Growing: A new article by Dr. Oktay and colleagues reviews options and provides guidelines.

Dec 20th, 2015

Enhanced Robotic Fertility Preservation Technique Improves Fertility Chances for Cancer Survivors

Study Records First-Ever Successful Pregnancies with New Ovarian Transplant Surgery in Two Tri-State Area Women.

Nov 19th, 2015

New Advancements Could Beat The Biological Clock

Huffington Post (9/28/3015)

Oct 4th, 2015

Genes Help Set Menopause Timing: Study

U.S. News & World Report (9/28/2015)

Oct 4th, 2015

Reversing Menopause

Dr Oktay is interviewed by BBC on reversing menopause.

Aug 10th, 2015

Meet the World’s First Baby Born With an Assist from Stem Cells

This newborn is the first baby in the world born using a breakthrough IVF treatment..

May 26th, 2015

Apple and Amazon Covers Egg Freezing

"Most women who want elective egg freezing present themselves at not an ideal age"

Oct 18th, 2014

Probability Of Live Birth After Egg Freezing Related To Patient Age And Freezing Method

For the first time, in Fertility and Sterility, researchers present age-specific probabilities of live birth after IVF with frozen eggs.

Jun 21st, 2013

Ova easy: Egg-freeze calculator

Read the NY Post article on Dr. Oktay's study on egg freezing success rates and pregnancy rate estimator....

Jun 5th, 2013

Myomectomy

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.

May 8th, 2013

Tubal Surgery including Reversal of Sterilization

Sometimes plans change after you have your tubes tied.

May 8th, 2013

Dr Oktay and team discovers why women's eggs age with time

Fertility specialist Kutluk Oktay, M.D., identifies factors that diminish a woman’s ability to repair ovarian eggs

May 6th, 2013

Specific Ovarian Stimulation Protocols for Repeated IVF Failures

Before giving up on IVF with your own eggs or your partner’s sperm a thorough evaluation is needed.

May 5th, 2013

Minimal Stimulation and Natural Cycle Protocols

While ovulation induction ensures a larger selection of eggs and embryos, the fertility medications can be costly.

May 4th, 2013

Fertility Preservation

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.

Apr 29th, 2013

High Success Rates

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.

Apr 29th, 2013

Pioneer in Fertility Preservation

World’s Most Comprehensive Fertility Preservation Procedures from a Pioneer

Apr 29th, 2013

Egg Freezing Success Rate Formula

Dr. Oktay’s team publishes world’s first age specific egg freezing success rates.

Apr 1st, 2013

Study Published

Study published in Science Translational Medicine, covered in Science, Nature and many news outlets around the world.

Apr 1st, 2013

Womens Eggs Age

Dr. Oktay discovers that women’s eggs age due to declining DNA repair, important clinical implications.

Apr 1st, 2013

Fertility Preservation in Young Women with Breast Cancer

Dr Oktay speaks on Fertility Preservation on women with breast cancer, Toronto, Canada.

Sep 8th, 2012

Ovarian Cryo Preservation

This technique does not require ovarian stimulation and can be performed in children and adults with short notice.

Jun 8th, 2012