A distinguished group of researchers involved at Hamilton Health Sciences has come to the fore in the recent days with a definite identification of the manner of sperm freezing and banking and terming it as an effective way for the very preservation of fertility in adolescents and young adult (AYA) males highly affected with cancer. It this regard, it has also come to the knowledge that the eminent researchers at the Centre for Reproductive Care, McMaster Children's Hospital and the Juravinski Cancer Centre, belonging to the Hamilton Health Sciences family of health care facilities joined the advancing brigade for the investigative study. The main intention has been the investigation of the benefits of the ardent conservation of sperm before the commencement of the treatment of cancer so as to allocate the male cancer patients with the prospect to father biological children in the future.

It has also been revealed in this respect that according to the new study under the leadership of Dr. Michael Neal the prominent author and the Director of the Laboratory at the Centre for Reproductive Care, and his eminent colleagues the sperm freezing has been identified as highly effective. But it has also been called as an underutilized option of fertility conservation for young male cancer patients. The present study with the name "Effectiveness of Sperm Banking in Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer – A Regional Experience," has been able for the prolific exposure of the hidden fact that a minimal proportion pointing to the 18 percent of the patients in the study preferred the banking of their sperm before cancer treatment. However, the individuals or those who happened to use their frozen sperm sample after triumphing over their cancer had a fertility success rate of 36 percent using intrauterine insemination (IUI – injecting the sperm into the uterus) and 50 percent using in vitro fertilization (IVF – fertilizing the egg in a lab and then transferring the embryo to the uterus) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI – injecting the sperm directly into the egg).

Speaking on this new approach Dr. Neal said, "The teams involved in the study are highly specialized and unique individually." "From saving lives to creating new life, the collaboration between these two disciplines provides an exciting opportunity for improved quality of life among adolescent and young adult cancer survivors in the Hamilton region.