Fertility Preservation

Fertility preservation is a process that has the potential to preserve a person’s ability to have a biological child in the future. This includes the freezing of healthy ovarian tissue and/or mature eggs for biological females and the freezing of healthy testicular tissue and/or mature sperm for biological males. 

The Fertility Preservation Service provides 

• Fertility, sexual and reproductive health consultation for children and adolescents at any age, before, during and after gonadotoxic treatments such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy etc
• Fertility, sexual and reproductive health consultation for children and adolescents who may have other conditions or treatments that affect fertility
• Education and training of health professionals
• Referral to other services involved in fertility care 

When to consider a referral to the Fertility Preservation Service

• When a medical treatment may pose a potential risk to a patient’s fertility
• When a patient has a medical condition that may affect their fertility
• When a patient or family request a referral
• If you are unsure whether to refer or not (refer anyway for clarification)
  

How do I refer to the Fertility Preservation Service?

• Email fertility@rch.org.au - from here a telephone number can be provided
• If you are an external health professional who needs specialised advice, please contact the Oncofertility team via the email address above.