Fertility Preservation Update: Consensus Meeting

Chemotherapy and radiotherapy used to treat cancer and autoimmune diseases often have a dramatic impact on fertility, both in men and women. Fertility preservation is an emerging field in assisted reproduction, which offers cancer survivors and those affected by other diseases that impact fertility with possible solutions to this problem. At the same time, fertility preservation is also becoming an option for women who, for social reasons, choose to postpone motherhood.

Fertility preservation must provide solutions for young people whose fertility may be at risk, using innovative techniques to preserve ovary and testicular tissue, or ovocytes and sperm, as well as embryos, depending on the age and situation of the person affected.

This meeting, coorganized by ICSD together with the Dexeus Foundation, aims to provide an up-to-date review of the fertility preservation techniques currently available and those that are still in the experimental stages. The program includes a panel of international experts in reproductive medicine and oncology specialists, who will debate the state of the art in fertility preservation and establish new strategies and lines of research in this field.