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Simon Fishel
Care Fertility
Is next generation IVF safe?
Simon Fishel assures patients that next generation IVF is an additional diagnostic approach to the embryos and the eggs and sperm, and does not change the safety of the procedure.
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Next generation IVF is in fact, it's more of a diagnostic approach to the embryos and the eggs and sperm that we have, than it is changing the actual general IVF process of stimulating the woman with drugs, getting the eggs out and fertilising them in the dish. So it doesn't add any extra level of risk because anything that we do to remove a cell from an embryo, we call it an embryo biopsy, we do know is safe. We do know that doesn't have risks to the embryo or to the patient. So if that's part of the next generation IVF, then that's probably the one area that's invasive but it's not risky. Most of the other technologies that we're bringing in are not invasive and therefore there's no additional risk.