There is a specific need for therapies to protect
fertility in young female patients receiving
radiotherapy or chemotherapy for various cancers
for which, in some cases, long-term curative
rates are high (2). For male patients, sperm
cryopreservation may be appropriate in such
circumstances, but for female patients, the option
of gamete cryopreservation is not, as yet,
offered routinely, largely due to the many unanswered
questions about reliability and efficacy
of oocyte cryopreservation