Fertility Preservation and Potential Future Treatment Options

In spite of large improvements in health care technologies and more access to reproductive health services during past decades, there are many reports on human fertility decline.The role of life style and environmen-tal factors on human fertility has attracted more attention recently and is the subject of worldwide studies on causes of male and female factor infertility. The important factors such as aging and delayed parenthood, inappropriate diet and poor nutrition, obesity, lack of exercise or intense professional exercise, emotional stress, environmental and occupational chemical hazards, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, air pollution, smoking and drug addiction, heavy use of alcohol/caffeine and several reproductive disorders (e.g. endometriosis, uterine fibroids, surgery, genetic predisposition and sexually transmitted infections (STIs)) can negatively affect human fertility. However, several approaches to deal with these factors and to reduce their impact on fertility are recommended. One of such preventative care approaches is fertility preservation with beneficial outcomes for individuals at risk of losing their fertility (1). The field of fertility preservation has quickly evolved during the last two decades with the hope to invent new technologies and find protocols for all those at risk of fertility loss. Individuals at risk of damage to their reproductive function request rapid counseling for all options on fertility preservation and for an authentic clinic with multidisciplinary team of experts including oncologists, endocrinologists, andrologists, surgeons