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Table 4 Details of men using cryopreserved sperm and their reproductive outcomes

From: Male cancer patient sperm cryopreservation for fertility preservation: 10-year monocentric experience

 

Age at banking (year)

Numbers of samples

Raw semen

Frozen-thawed semen

ARTa

Reproductive outcome

Volume

(mL)

Count

(106/mL)

Motility

(%)

Count

(106/mL)

Motility

(%)

Recovery

rates (%)

Clinical

pregnancies

Number of births

Testicular tumor

27

6

2.6

3.4

48

2.9

31

64.6

ICSI

live birth

1

Testicular tumor

27

6

6

14

49

10

22

45

ICSI

live birth

1

Leukemia

34

10

2.3

134

48

92

37

77

ICSI

live birth

1

Leukemia

28

4

3.9

9

47

3

30

63.8

ICSI

live birth

1

Lymphoma

37

8

4.3

42

68

28

33

48.5

ICSI/IVF/IUI

no pregnancy

0

Lymphoma

26

3

3.0

31

54

20

35

64.8

ICSI

clinical pregnancies

0

Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

36

3

2.9

80

37

64

23

62.2

IVF

abortion

0

Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

35

5

1.8

79

58

NS

NS

NS

IVF

live birth

1

Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

41

4

3.1

108

52

NS

NS

NS

IVF

no pregnancy

0

Thyroid tumor

32

4

3.6

78

42

66

23

54.8

IVF

abortion

0

Colorectal cancer

46

4

1.6

56

39

43

23

59

ICSI

embryo cryopreservation

0

Gastric cancer

41

3

1.8

93

46

40

25

54.3

ICSI

clinical pregnancies

0

Hemangiosarcoma

28

6

2.5

26

28

16

11

39.3

ICSI

clinical pregnancies

0

  1. Abbreviations: ART assisted reproduction technology; ICSI intracytoplasmic sperm injection; IVF In vitro fertilization; IUI intrauterine insemination
  2. Reproductive outcomes of 13 patients who used their banked samples for 15 assisted reproductive cycles. One couple tried to conceive with three times of assisted reproduction; twelve couples tried to conceive with only one time