Up to four in 10 clinics in the UK offering the service privately may be breaching advertising guidance by not making the success rates clear, an investigation found.
The most common age to freeze eggs in the UK currently stands at 38, yet women in their twenties are increasingly urging others of the same age to opt into the procedure.
A team from Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, a university hospital in Belgium, studied 843 women who had chosen to have their eggs frozen between 2009 and 2019.
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More than 40% of women who chose to freeze their eggs in their 30s were able to have babies later in life when they returned to the fertility clinic, according to research presented today (Monday) at the 39th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE).