ESHRE good practice recommendations on fertility preservation involving testicular tissue cryopreservation in children receiving gonadotoxic therapies†

How should fertility preservation in child and adolescent males receiving gonadotoxic therapies be managed?

There were 44 recommendations formulated to provide guidance on all aspects of fertility preservation in prepubertal boys and adolescent males in whom it is not possible to obtain sperm by established methods including semen cryopreservation and surgical sperm extraction; the recommendations covered topics from setting up a fertility preservation program, determining who is eligible, and counselling, to the practical aspects of the testicular tissue biopsy and cryopreservation.