When he heard the diagnosis - prostate cancer, surgery needed - Neal Rosenblum was crushed that the treatment would destroy his ability to have more children.
Now a year later, the self-employed Hollywood engineer and inventor lives cancer-free, and he and his wife last week tried for a baby through in-vitro fertilization using his sperm frozen before the surgery left him sterile.
Rosenblum, 41, is one of a growing number of young cancer patients freezing sperm and eggs in case surgery, chemotherapy and radiation end their reproductive futures. For men, it’s a fairly successful process.
But for women, egg freezing is still experimental, with high hopes but uncertain success. What’s more, some fertility doctors are upsetting their colleagues by marketing egg freezing as a mainstream technique for healthy women who want to bank young eggs so they can delay pregnancy.
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