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FCNE Featured on CBS Discussing Egg Freezing

The Fertility Center’s of New England’s Dr. Beth Plante was featured on CBS Boston discussing egg freezing and pressing “pause” on your biological clock. “You freeze it when the woman is…

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Why Egg Freeze?

Women are born with a finite number of eggs which continuously decline from birth. As women age the quality of these eggs also declines leading to fewer successful pregnancies and…

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Deciding When to Have a Baby?

Most people grow up thinking that they will have no difficulty some day becoming a parent. Deciding when to have a baby can be perplexing. More and more women are…

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High Pregnancy Rates with Both Fresh and Frozen Embryos

In the last few years our ability to grow embryos for 5 days, at which point they are called blastocysts, has led to extremely high pregnancy rates with both fresh…

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Freeze Eggs: Preserving Your Fertility

In today’s society, women often delay childbearing until later in their reproductive years. The reasons for this shift are complex, but are often related to social, educational, and economic factors.…

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What is Egg Freezing?

More women are delaying motherhood but they still face the constraint of their biological clocks. If the time is not right for you to start a family, technology offers an…

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Fertility Preservation for Patients with Cancer

Due to recent medical advances, a cancer diagnosis–although devastating–no longer means the loss of life or even ultimate fertility. Fertility preservation options should be considered when planning cancer treatment because…

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Cryopreservation: What is it?

Cryopreservation (freezing) of embryos has been associated with IVF since its inception in the 1908’s.  The use of Frozen Embryo Transfer (FET) has resulted greater than 150,000 health births worldwide. …

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Fertility After Cancer

For many, having a child is very much a part of the quality of life. Not all young cancer survivors are aware of the potential option for fertility preservation and…

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