14th World Congress on In Vitro Fertilization:
Patients to tell their stories at IVF Congress
(sz) There’s no such thing as a good day to hear your doctor utter the terrifying words “breast cancer,” but when Stacey Bolton was diagnosed on September 11, 2006, no one would have blamed her for seeing the 9/11 anniversary as a bad omen. As it happens, the 32-year old Ottawa resident is an optimist.
“My first question was ‘What does this mean about babies?’” she says. “Of course, I was told that what I needed to be worried about was saving my own life, but I explained that it was very important to me that I take care of the children I will have one day.”
A fertility expert in Ottawa referred Bolton to the McGill Reproductive Centre and its founder, Dr. Seang Lin Tan, Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Obstetrician and Gynecologist-in-Chief of the McGill University Health Centre. Within a week, she had been assessed, admitted and had eight of her eggs collected for the relatively new process of in vitro maturation, or IVM.
Bolton is among a group of former and current fertility patients addressing the 14th World Congress on In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) and the Third World Congress on In Vitro Maturation (IVM), to be held in Montreal September 15-19, 2007. Among those who have agreed to speak are the parents of the world’s first baby conceived from an in vitro matured and previously cryopreserved, or frozen, oocyte. more…
From: »McGill Reporter«