Fertility Preservation Program

Chemotherapy and radiation treatments for cancer and other conditions can damage fertility and reduce or eliminate a patient’s ability to have children in the future. The good news is that improved treatments have dramatically increased cancer survival rates. Therefore, issues affecting quality of life after cure (including fertility) are increasingly important to survivors. Age, genetics, surgery, injury, gender affirming treatments and other factors can also impact fertility. Through the Center for Fertility and Reproductive Endocrinology at Magee-Womens Hospital, the Fertility Preservation Program in Pittsburgh provides the following fertility care services for children and/or adults: • semen cryopreservation • embryo cryopreservation • embryo cryopreservation using donor sperm • oocyte cryopreservation • testicular tissue freezing • ovarian tissue freezing