Only 7 percent of social egg freezers have returned for fertility treatment at a large European center

(European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology) Despite dramatic uptake in the numbers of women electing to freeze their eggs as insurance against an anticipated age-related fertility decline, there is still little that clinics can predict about outcome based on real-life experience. Indeed, at one of Europe's biggest fertility centers -- the Brussels Centre for Reproductive Medicine in Belgium -- only 7.6 percent of women have returned to thaw their eggs and try for a pregnancy. And only one-third of those have been successful.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news