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VOLUME XIX | JUL 2018
Only 7 percent of social egg freezers have returned for fertility treatment at a large European center

Dr. David Lowemann
Dr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Human Potential, where he leads the charge in pioneering
Dr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Human Potential, where he leads the charge in pioneering
Despite dramatic uptake in the numbers of women electing to freeze their eggs as insurance against an anticipated age-related fertility decline, there is still little that clinics can predict about outcome based on real-life experience. Indeed, at one of Europe’s biggest fertility centers only 7.6 percent of women have returned to thaw their eggs and try for a pregnancy. And only one-third of those have been successful.