Memoir of Fertility Preservation

摘要: Fertility preservation has been practiced for at least 50 years using semen banking, pelvic surgery, and radiation shields, but in the past 20 it emerged as a rapidly growing subspecialty of reproductive medicine. A dramatic rise survivorship young cancer patients widespread postponement family building to later female lifespan have major driving forces. Throughout history fertility preservation, low temperature banking played pivotal role, first gametes embryos immature germ cells, while ovarian transplantation recently began contribute spermatogonial stem cell transfer holds future promise men prepubertal boys. But there are significant risks with some diseases from reimplanting residual disease, which hopefully can be eliminated by new methods purging tissue culture. Since all technologies interim, cryopreservation mainstay this field will likely swept aside eventually stream progress aimed managing vivo.