This protocol is being designed to offer testicular tissue cryopreservation to male pediatric patients (0-17 years of age) with fertility threatening medical diagnoses or facing surgery, chemotherapy or radiation therapy that may cause loss of reproductive potential.
Testicular tissue cryopreservation is currently considered experimental but offers the only opportunity for fertility preservation in pre-pubescent boys faced with a fertility threatening diagnosis or treatment plan. After completion of study intervention, patients are followed up at 1-week post-surgery and then yearly thereafter.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
200
Testicular tissue will be removed
Mayo Clinic in Rochester
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
RECRUITINGNumber of pregnancies and live births after transplantation of cryopreserved testicular tissue
Time frame: 10-20 years
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