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Tara Kerpelman - Hello everyone! We are running a little bit late so stay tuned for the start of the Summit!

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Tara Kerpelman - Lisa Campo-Engelstein is starting off the Summit

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Tara Kerpelman -

Teresa Woodruff is now welcoming everyone with her characteristic enthusiasm.

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Tara Kerpelman - Marybeth Gerrity, the Executive Director of the Oncofertility Consortium is giving the inaugural lecture: "Best Practices in Clinical Oncofertility"

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Tara Kerpelman - Women are born with all their eggs so if anything happens to them it creates a huge challenge in fertility.

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Tara Kerpelman - Patients with rheumatological diseases, genetic mutations, anyone getting a bone marrow or stem cell transplant, or with a risk of cancer could benefit from fertility preservation options.

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Tara Kerpelman -

There are options available to men and pubertal boys such as sperm banking. For pre-pubertal boys testical tissue banking is used. If they don't have an opportunity to bank sperm before treatment they can use donor sperm.

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Tara Kerpelman - Women and pubertal girls can have embryo or egg banking (AKA emergency IVF) or ovarian tissue cryopreservation. If they don't have the opportunity to do this before treatments they can use a gestational carrier or donor eggs.

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Tara Kerpelman - IVF: Ovaries are stimulated with hormones to produce many eggs instead of just one or two. Eggs retrieved surgically (takes 5 minutes) about 2 weeks later. The eggs are taken to the lab and sperm is combined. They are left to fertilize.

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Tara Kerpelman - Limitations: It takes 2 or 3 weeks for the process, there are high doses of drugs, sperm may not be available. For cancer patients this can be an issue depending on the stage of their illness. If treatment needs to begin right away, they may not have enough time to go through the IVF treatment.

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