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COPYRIGHT 2004 International Medical News Group
PHILADELPHIA -- Egg and ovarian tissue freezing should not be marketed or offered to healthy women as a means to defer reproductive aging, according to a new report issued by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
Although the techniques hold promise for female fertility preservation, a lack of sufficient data on success rates and safety issues means these procedures should be performed only experimentally under Institutional Review Board guidelines and only in women who face potentially sterilizing treatment, the report states (Fertil. Steril. 2004;82:993-8).
Despite these recommendations, Extend Fertility, a Boston-based company that earlier this year began promoting egg freezing to healthy women as a means of extending their biological clocks, says it plans to continue offering the...
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