PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ovarian Cancer, Nuclear Family, Menopause
23 Apr 2016
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Popular new reproductive technologies (nrt) in canada: Embryo cryopreservation, therapeutic donor insemination, epididymal sperm aspiration, ovum donor, gestational carrier (surrogate mothering), intrauterine insemination, ivf, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, oocyte freezing, womb outsourcing. According to the 2013 reports of the canadian fertility and andrology society there are around 38 fertility clinics in canada. Ivf is the most popular method of assisted reproduction. 76% of births were singletons, 23% were twins, and 0. 8% were triplets or more. This represents a decrease in multiple birth rates of 5 percentage points, compared with 2009. The live birth rates per cycle started, by age of the mother, were: 38% of women under 35 years old, 26% for women aged 35-39 years, 11% for women 40 years old and over. A complete ivf procedure, which includes a sperm wash, as well as oocyte freezing, etc. , could cost over /cycle.
