The Fertility Preservation Service at The Royal Children's Hospital is committed to improving the lives of children and adolescents who may require fertility care due to cancer treatment or other medical conditions. We promote good governance, pathways of care, communication, research and education for fertility care. We achieve this by integrating the collective wisdom of families and patients, with experts from a range of disciplines including Paediatric Gynaecology, Oncology, Endocrinology, Reproductive Medicine, Ethics, Legal, Sociology, Transgender Care and Paediatric Surgery. We promote the integration of fertility care between the paediatric and adult sectors.

The Fertility Preservation Service:

• develops clinical pathways and policies
• guides referrals to clinical ethics committees
• supports patient-provider communication
• conducts academic research programs
• educates health providers and the community
• leads in the development of paediatric and adolescent fertility preservation programs world-wide
  

The Fertility Preservation team has ties with the University of Melbourne Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and The Royal Women’s Hospital Melbourne.

Second National Oncofertility Summit 2019 - 4th December 2019

Fertility preservation in the news

• Read about  how important the Oncofertility Service was for one our patients in this short article
• Do you want to know more about our Fertility Preservation program? You can listen to the  Fertility Preservation Clinical lead in this interview with Professor Shane Huntingon on 3RRR Einstein agogo – please start from minute 33
• You can listen to the  Clinical Ethics team at the RCH discussing a clinical ethics case on the Philosopher’s Zone program from the ABC
• Children teach us about love and strength. When we turn to them as young adults to ask 'Where should our priorities lie? What can we do better?' We listen to their powerful voices with humility, joy, and the resolve to keep getting better and better.
   
   

The Fertility Preservation Service is honoured to be named a finalist in the VicHealth awards 2019. We are grateful to work with partners at The Womens, The University of Melbourne, Youth Cancer Action Board and PICS Parental Advisory Group to inform best practice care in oncoferility.