Dr. Nicole Noyes' Paper Featured in Article "Is Egg Freezing Unfairly Marginalized?"
March 15, 2010
Early last decade, a procedure became available to aging women that allowed doctors to extract and freeze their eggs in the hopes of preserving their fertility. In an unprecedented paper calling for reconsideration of the experimental label, three of the world's most prominent researchers in egg freezing claim the technology has vastly improved and is safe: Frozen-egg babies, so far, have no more health problems than the rest of the population. Published last month in the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, the paper makes the case that egg freezing, known scientifically as ooctye cryopreservation, has been singled out. In the paper, the pro-egg-freezing authors argue that some IVF programs are achieving the same success rates using frozen eggs as they normally would with fresh eggs. In one example, 18 of 32 women who froze their eggs became pregnant (six with twins) at NYU's Fertility Center, which is co-run by lead author Nicole Noyes. Such statistics might be glowing, but they're generated by only a handful of clinics.
