Fertility Treatments

Cancer treatments may affect a patient’s reproductive system.

Women with cancer are encouraged to undergo fertility treatment to cryopreserve their eggs or embryos (eggs fertilized with sperm) prior to starting treatment. Costs range from $10,000-$15,000 depending on treatment center and medications used to stimulate the ovaries.

Intra-uterine insemination (IUI) is a medical procedure in which fresh or thawed sperm in inserted into the woman’s uterus. It takes 3 to 6 cycles to conceive and costs $1,000-$4,700 per cycle depending on if medication is used to stimulate the ovaries.

In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) is the process of stimulating the ovaries to produce multiple eggs, harvesting them through surgery, fertilizing the eggs with sperm in the lab to create a grow an embryo and transferring one or two embryos into the uterus. IVF is the method used by most men who freeze sperm. Female survivors can have thawed eggs fertilized to create embryos. The cost of one IVF cycle costs $14,500-$19,000 (Advanced Fertility 2021) and pregnancy is only achieved in 27.3% of all cycles (CDC 2016).