Outcome Evaluation After Fertility Preservation

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Cancer; Fertility Issues

Treatments: Other: This is an observational cohort study

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06043609

2023.346

Details and patient eligibility

About

It is important to evaluate outcomes after different fertility preservation strategies. Therefore, this study aims to assess the outcomes after different fertility preservation strategies and identify any factors that may affect their reproductive outcome.

Full description

All patients who have undergone or will seek fertility preservation services in PWH will be invited to participate. For those patients who have undergone fertility preservation services in PWH, when they come back to use their frozen gametes or embryos, they will also be invited to participate.

Medical record assessment When patients come for fertility preservation consultation in PWH, they will be invited to participate. The medical notes of these patients undergoing fertility preservation services will be reviewed. The baseline characteristics including the socio-demographic background, past medical history, details of the surgical procedures, and the subsequent reproductive outcome, will be obtained by reviewing their hospital record. The participants will not be required to take any extra procedures.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients aged from 0-50 years old
• Patients with any illness or who will undergo any type of treatment that may cause irreversible damage to their fertility, such as extensive abdominal surgery, high toxicity medication and treatments;
• Patients seek for fertility preservation services

Exclusion criteria

-Patients unable to provide consent/assent (i.e. significant psychiatric problems/cognitive delay)