Cancer Fertility and Me
  • About this site
    • About this website
    • Decisions before, during and after treatment
    • Using this website to help make decisions
    • Glossary of terms found on this site
  • Cancer & fertility
    • Cancer, fertility and the reproductive system
    • How cancer treatments affect fertility
    • Chemotherapy
    • Radiotherapy
    • Surgery
    • Hormone therapy
    • Targeted drug therapies
    • Questions to ask
  • Fertility preservation
    • Fertility preservation options
    • Summary of fertility preservation options
    • No fertility preservation
    • Egg freezing
    • Embryo freezing
    • Ovarian tissue freezing
    • Ovarian suppression
    • Cancer-specific fertility sparing options
    • Other cancer treatments
    • Questions to ask your cancer & fertility care teams
  • Contraception & family planning
    • Contraception & family planning
    • Contraception during cancer treatment
    • Family planning decisions after cancer treatment
    • Questions to ask your cancer care team or GP
  • Making your decision
    • Making your fertility preservation decision
    • Talking with your fertility care team
    • Talking with others
    • Questions to ask your cancer care team or GP
    • Financial costs of fertility preservation
    • Summary of fertility preservation options
  • More information
    • Useful contacts
    • The CFM team
    • Our external partners
    • Download the CFM booklet
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Embryo freezing

The process of preserving an embryo at below freezing (lower than zero) temperatures and stored for later use.

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This website has information to help you:

• Understand more about how cancer
treatments may cause fertility problems in
women.
• Understand more about how women with
cancer can preserve their fertility, before
starting cancer treatment.
• Understand which options to preserve
fertility may fit best into your life.
• Understand family planning decisions
during and after cancer treatment.

This booklet may be helpful to you if:

• You have recently been diagnosed with cancer.

• You may want to become pregnant and

try to have a child in the future after your cancer treatment has been completed.

• You would like more information to help you make a decision about fertility preservation.

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Cancer, Fertility and Me – Patient Decision Aid (version 3.0) – this online version was published and last amended in September 2019

Disclaimer
Every effort has been made to provide accurate and complete information at the date of publication. However, errors can occur. If you have any questions, please ask your cancer care team and fertility care team for more information. September 2019

Production of this website was supported by Yorkshire Cancer Research and the University of Edinburgh