Ten years of egg freezing – is it time for re-evaluation?
Now that women who have frozen their eggs for non-medical reasons are returning to use them, there needs to be a re-evaluation of time limits placed on storage...
Clinical Psychologist
Dr Julie Nekkebroeck works as a psychologist for Brussels-IVF and the Centre for Medical Genetics of the UZ Brussels, Belgium. She obtained a doctoral degree in 2008 on 'the health of children born after preimplantation genetic diagnosis' and further gained expertise in the domain of reproductive psychology resulting in several international peer reviewed publications. For more than ten years, she has been a full time clinician, counselling patients applying for fertility treatments including patients considering oocyte cryopreservation for non-medical reasons.
Now that women who have frozen their eggs for non-medical reasons are returning to use them, there needs to be a re-evaluation of time limits placed on storage...
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