What are the fertility preservation options for prepubertal boys?
The video What are the fertility preservation options for prepubertal boys? requires the Adobe Flash Player. You can download the latest version of Flash here.
You can also read the transcript of the video below.
Robert Brannigan, M.D. Professor, Urology
Oncofertility Consortium
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Show transcript
Hide transcript
At this point in time for boys who have not reached puberty, fertility preservation measures are really investigational. And if we were going to try to pursue fertility preservation in such an individual, we would need to go through an IRB and have the patient’s family signing up aware of all the risks and benefits and aware of the fact that any of the immature sperm or the developing sperm that are in the patient’s body may or may not in the long run be usable for fertility efforts.