Recent advances in assisted reproductive technologies have given women more options and choices for building families than ever before. Fertility preservation allows women to choose the right time to have their babies.

Increasingly popular options for women are egg freezing — in which eggs are retrieved from a woman’s ovaries and frozen — and embryo banking, which involves fertilizing the egg with sperm before freezing. At PFC we offer the most advanced egg and embryo freezing procedures available, giving patients more options than ever to build their families. The centers use a first-of-its kind technology to provide additional security for the tanks storing frozen embryos and eggs.

Women choose egg freezing and embryo banking for a variety of reasons, such as:

• Diagnosis of cancer—many women choose to freeze eggs prior to cancer therapy
• Premature ovarian failure
• Rapidly declining ovarian function
• Delaying child-bearing for personal and situational reasons
• Taking advantage of optimal egg viability for future conception