The concept of egg freezing can be misconstrued in the media or portrayed as desperate act of what baby - hungry women are doing, but after interviewing over 75 women who have electively
undergone egg freezing it is remarkable how similar each journey of these women actually take.
Not exact matches
Traditionally, clinics offered only
egg freezing, whereby a woman has her
eggs extracted and preserved for later use, to those about to
undergo cancer treatment that might render them infertile.
Like IVF,
egg freezing was initially developed for a specific purpose: young female cancer patients who had to
undergo chemotherapy elected to
freeze their
eggs before doing so.
G: Well, of course there's
egg freezing, which will have its greatest use as an insurance policy for women
undergoing chemotherapy.