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Preserving options, sustaining hope
Thanks to a transatlantic collaboration forged by Pasquale Patrizio, M.D., professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences and director of the Yale Fertility Center (YFC), patients in the New Haven area, including women newly diagnosed with cancer who wish to preserve fertility during chemotherapy or radiation, can now reap the benefits of a new, uniquely successful form of the egg-freezing technique known as oocyte cryopreservation (OC). Although OC has been attempted in various