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- Title
Fertility preservation: should we reconsider the terminology?
- Authors
Grynberg, Michaël; Sermondade, Nathalie
- Abstract
The term 'fertility preservation' embraces techniques that are actually mostly based on gamete and gonadal tissue cryopreservation. While the efficiency of these techniques in terms of live births remains difficult to establish, it is remarkable that this ambiguous terminology is routinely used and seems currently well accepted. In order to limit false hopes about the real chances of truly preserving fertility, our medical community should discuss qualifying the term 'fertility preservation'. 'Gamete or gonadal tissue cryopreservation' could appear as a more unambiguous and realistic term. However, it probably captures only a segment of a more global 'fertility preservation' process. Discussing how and when to use which terminology, and even finding a more realistic and unifying term, should be further explored.
- Subjects
FERTILITY preservation; TERMS &; phrases; CHILDBIRTH; GAMETES; CRYOPRESERVATION of organs, tissues, etc.
- Publication
Human Reproduction, 2019, Vol 34, Issue 10, p1855
- ISSN
0268-1161
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1093/humrep/dez160