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Mr Efstathios Theodorou
Independent Doctor's Federation
What medical reasons would women want to freeze their eggs?
Mr Efstathios Theodorou lists some of the medical reasons why a woman would want to freeze her eggs for fertility preservation, including predicted premature menopause, chemotherapy or radiotherapy for cancer, diseases like SLE or rheumatoid diseases, and gender transitioning.
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Women should choose to use egg freezing as a fertility preservation, and that is women whom will lose their fertility because of medical reasons. For example, predicted early menopause, predicted premature menopause, either because of family history or because of genetic aberration. Women that may have premature menopause because of operations in the ovaries, for example for ovarian cysts or for endometriosis, severe endometriosis. Women that are may have, again, premature menopause because of taking chemotherapy or radiotherapy for cancer or for other diseases like SLE or other rheumatoid diseases. Before having an operation to change sex, transgender operations. Or women freeze eggs, if for example you have IVF treatment, and on the day of the egg retrieval, your partner cannot produce a sperm sample, therefore those eggs, instead of discarding them, we would freeze them to use them in the future.