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Mr Efstathios Theodorou
Independent Doctor's Federation
What is the purpose of egg freezing?
Mr Efstathios Theodorou explains that the purpose of egg freezing is to allow women to delay motherhood while retaining high quality eggs.
Transcript
It exists because women nowadays are delaying motherhood. There is a trend that women are trying to get pregnant at a much older age than before. And at the same time, the egg number and the egg quality decreases significantly with age, and that is a matter that, unfortunately, IVF cannot help.