Urologie pro praxi 2/2018

Oncofertility – perspectives and complications

Current assisted reproduction techniques can be used to protect reproductive functions of oncological patients. The key factors towards successful clinical implementation of these methods are good awareness and collaboration between clinical oncologists and the assisted reproduction center with established reproductive protection program including surgical interventions on ovaries and testes. Sperm cryopreservation represents the basic technique to protect the reproduction of men. The recognized fertility preservation methods available for women are ovarian suppression with gonadoliberine analogues, ovarian stimulation with oocytes and embryos collection and subsequent cryopreservation or ovarian cortex tissue collection and cryopreservation.

Keywords: oncofertility, chemotherapy, assisted reproduction, vitrification.