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Assisted Conception - Affordable Infertility Treatments
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The Tyler Medical Clinic Assisted Conception - Affordable Infertility Treatments
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- Breast Cancer and other Cancers -
Prevention of Breast Cancer
This page is not meant to discuss available treatments for breast cancer. It is meant to offer a way to prevent the transfer of the disease from parents to children. Because of recent developments in reproductive technologies, it is now possible to test an embryo resulted from an In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) process, using the Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) technique.
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) makes possible to examine an embryo before its implantation into the mother’s uterus and study its genetic make up, inclusive of the sex of the future baby. Thus, women who have a strong family history of breast cancer can have oocytes (eggs) retrieved from her ovaries, fertilized with the husband’s sperm and after a few days have one cell removed from the developing embryo and tested for gender. Transferring only male embryos into the mother’s uterus, the transfer of the genetic changes that cause breast cancer may be interrupted.
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