Cryopreservation of ovarian cortex in young patients with cancer and indication of gonadotoxic treatment
Keywords:
CRYOPRESERVATION., OVARY, CHEMOTHERAPY, NEOPLASMS, PRESERVATION OF TISSUE
Abstract
Background: the improvement of curation rates in young patients with cancer leads to plan strategies that decrease treatment sequelae, specially reproductive repercussions.
Objective: to present the Preservation of the Ovarian Function Program in patients with cancer ant to publish the Cryopreservation of Ovarian Cortex Protocol.
Methods: we included the first 15 patients that met the inclusion criteria, and who would be undergoing cryopreservation of ovarian tissue prior to chimiotherapy.
Cryopreservation of one ovary with bilateral ovarian biopsy as a unique procedure was performed in 12 patients. In the remaining 3 patients, heterotopic translocation was associated with the left ovary. We describe the cryopreservation protocol we used.
Results: successful cryopreservation was performed in 15 patients carriers of diverse cancers who needed gonadotoxic treatment.
Discussion and conclusions: multidisciplinary and multi-institutional efforts have allowed to develop this program that orchestrate a still emerging technique. It is a procedure to be incorporated in a specific protocol. It is for many women, an opportunity to preserve hormonal and occasionaly reproductive ovarian function.
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(12) Arav A, Zeron Y, Ocheretny A. A new device and method for vitrification increases the cooling rate and allows successful cryopreservation of bovine oocytes. Theriogenology 2000; 53(1): 248.
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(15) Fahy GM. The relevance of cryoprotectant "toxicity" to cryobilogy. Cryobilogy 1986; 23: 1-13.
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(19) Fahy G, MacFarlane D, Angell C, Meryman H. Vitrification as an approach to cryopreservation. Cryobiology 1984: 407-26.
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(45) Oktay K, Sonmezer M. Ovarian tissue banking for cancer patients: fertility preservation, not just ovarian cryopreservation. Hum Reprod 2004; 19(3): 477-80.
(46) Abir R, Nitke S, Ben-Haroush A, Fisch B. In vitro maturation of human primordial ovarian follicles: clinical significance, progress in mammals, and methods for growth evaluation. Histol Histopathol 2006; 21(8): 887-98.
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Pérez Campos H, Cóppola Gonzálvez F, Martínez Torena J, Afonzo Y, Domínguez Álvaro, Aguirre R, Parada S, Saldías M del C, de Dios L, Castillo L, Álvarez I. Cryopreservation of ovarian cortex in young patients with cancer and indication of gonadotoxic treatment. Rev. Méd. Urug. [Internet]. 2007Jun.30 [cited 2024Nov.14];23(2):99-108. Available from: http://www2.rmu.org.uy/ojsrmu311/index.php/rmu/article/view/624
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