Egg-freezing clinics are ‘preying’ on ladies’s anxieties to promote them a therapy they might not want and could also be unlikely to work, an Oxford tutorial has warned.
Imogen Goold, a professor of medical legislation, stated ladies of their late 30s or past shouldn’t be inspired to pay to freeze their eggs, because the probabilities of efficiently utilizing them to have a child had been very low.
Analysis has proven that the probability of a frozen egg resulting in a stay start declines dramatically in keeping with the rising age of the girl when the egg is frozen.
Success charges might be as little as 3 per cent for eggs frozen when ladies had been 36 to 39.
Imogen Goold, a professor of medical legislation, stated ladies of their late 30s or past shouldn’t be inspired to pay to freeze their eggs (inventory photograph)
Talking on the annual convention of the fertility charity Progress Instructional Belief (PET) final week, Professor Goold stated: ‘I feel the worst factor is to promote egg freezing to ladies of their late 30s. As a result of promoting it to somebody who’s 39, within the hope that she will be able to use that egg when she is 45, actually is problematic.’
Two-thirds of egg-freezing cycles within the UK contain ladies aged 35 and over, based on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA).
The variety of egg-freezing cycles involving ladies aged 35-plus has risen from 148 in 2010 to 1,589 in 2019.
Professor Goold stated ladies wanted higher entry to unbiased recommendation on the realities of egg-freezing.
Analysis has proven that the probability of a frozen egg resulting in a stay start declines dramatically in keeping with the rising age of the girl when the egg is frozen (inventory photograph)
‘Clearly the industrial providers who’re providing it have a vested curiosity in telling [women] it really works very well,’ she added.
An egg-freezing cycle is often marketed at about £3,250 however this typically excludes prices reminiscent of medicines and egg storage, which may carry the entire to £8,000.
IVF clinics have beforehand been {accused} of utilizing statistics in a complicated strategy to give a ‘false sense of safety’ to ladies that the therapy will assure them a child in future.
The HFEA’s Clare Ettinghausen stated: ‘As fertility decreases within the mid-30s, clinics should advise sufferers of the probability of success of freezing eggs after that.’
