egg freezing
Storing ova cold
Egg freezing is a medical procedure in which a woman's eggs are extracted, frozen, and stored for future use.
The technique allows women to preserve fertility before age-related decline, cancer treatment, or other circumstances that might affect reproductive capacity.
She decided on egg freezing at thirty-two to keep her options open.
- oocyteUndeveloped female gamete
- fertilityCapacity for reproduction
- fertility clinicReproductive medicine facility
- cryopreservationLow-temperature biological preservation
- clinicOutpatient treatment facility
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- reproductionreproduction, birth, baby, egg, sperm
- fertilityfertility, fecundity, infertility, conception, reproduction
- reproductive healthpregnancy, infertility, childbirth, male infertility, fertility rates
- women's healthgynecologist, gynecology, menstruation, OB-GYN, period
- Infertilityinfertility, male infertility, low sperm count, PCOS, endometriosis
- transitionhormone therapy, HRT, hormone replacement, estrogen, testosterone
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