On the occasion of World Cancer Day on February 4, Bourn Hall Fertility Centre, Dubai, informs about options to preserve the fertility of cancer-diagnosed patients who will have to undergo fertility affecting treatment such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Egg freezing can be a viable fertility preservation method for women diagnosed with cancer. After cancer treatment, whenever the patient feels ready to get pregnant, the frozen eggs are thawed and injected with sperm to fertilize them. The process to collect the eggs is very similar to a regular IVF procedure. Hormones are needed to stimulate the ovaries to produce the eggs, which are collected and frozen.
Bourn Hall Fertility Centre also provides preservation solutions for cancer diagnosed males. Before beginning cancer treatment, men can provide semen samples that will be frozen and stored. Samples can be used after successful cancer treatment, applying intrauterine insemination, where the sperm is thawed and placed in the uterus, or with in vitro fertilization.
Hoda Abou-Jamra, Group CEO of Bourn Hall International, holding company of the Dubai-based Bourn Hall Fertility Centre, said: “It is surprising that many cancer diagnosed patients are unaware that they have fertility preservation options. We want to educate all cancer diagnosed patients, who are not yet undergoing a chemotherapy or radiation therapy about options to preserve their fertility and be able to establish a family after successful cancer treatment.”
Dr. David Robertson, Medical Director at Bourn Hall Fertility Centre and Consultant in Reproductive Medicine & Infertility, adds: “We want to support cancer patients and make sure they have all the information to make the best decisions for life after cancer treatment.”
Dr. David adds “For patients wishing to cryopreserve eggs due to a cancer diagnosis, fertility specialists will liaise with the patient’s oncologist to ensure that in each case it is an appropriate treatment option.”
About Bourn Hall Fertility Centre, Dubai
With the aim of fulfilling many couples’ aspirations of parenthood, Bourn Hall International has set up Bourn Hall Fertility Centre in Dubai, a state-of-the-art, technologically-advanced, patient-friendly IVF centre, equipped with the latest IVF technology and staffed with international physicians, nurses and scientists who are experts in the field of Assisted Reproduction Technology.
Bourn Hall Fertility International is the international arm of Bourn Hall, United Kingdom (UK), responsible for the birth of the world’s first IVF baby in 1978 and pioneering this field for 40 years.
The Bourn Hall International Group of Fertility Centre in Dubai follows the same procedures, processes and techniques that have been developed and enhanced by Bourn Hall, UK.
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