What is the process of trying to start a family like once treatment has been completed?

When a patient is looking to do something for fertility preservation, there’s usually kind of the front end of actually going through the procedures. Maybe it’s emergency IVF, maybe it’s ovarian tissue freezing or sperm banking, then that patient is kind of handed back to their oncologist to complete their cancer treatment and that varies depending upon each cancer patient. The patient kind of then loops back with us later on after their usually, we wait until their oncologist says to the women, especially a woman cancer patient, says to this woman patient, “Yes, it’s okay for you to start trying to get pregnant at this point. We think that you have completed your treatment. Your disease is in remission. We have a good block of time here where we think that this is far away enough from your cancer treatment where you can start to try to get pregnant.” Then that patient kind of loops back with us to say, “Okay, I’m ready to start trying," and that really varies depending upon the patient and depending upon their treatment. Not only that, but it also depends upon the patient and where they are within their life, within their own lifestyle at making that decision of when they’re ready to have a child or just try to start getting pregnant. But that’s when the patient would kind of loop back in with us. When they’re ready, their oncologist has kind of given the okay that they’re ready and then we would kind of go through the procedures depending upon what preservation options they did to try to help them conceive.