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Frozen Egg Bank, located in Orange County California, uses the exclusive patent pending LANDA Technology to freeze unfertilized eggs. Frozen Egg Bank has perfected a method of successfully freezing and storing the eggs from healthy young egg donors to create one of the most successful egg bank in the country, offering egg donation IVF.
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Press Release November 11, 2011
This baby reunion is unique because it celebrates the pioneering families and their babies conceived from thawed frozen eggs. Nearly 70 joyous families and their frozen egg babies came together on October 15, 2011 to celebrate LIFE at West Coast Fertility Centers.
Previously, the low success described in early published medical articles about egg freezing seemed to perpetuate the false notion that egg freezing is not successful and would never become a reality. However, building on the high success rate with embryo freezing at West Coast Fertility Centers, David Diaz, MD turned his focus to the systematic analysis of the physiology and the fluid composition of a human oocyte (eggs). West Coast scientists recognized the oocyte’s special requirements needed to survive the rigors of very low freezing temperature while still maintaining its integrity. Equally important is the development of a robust thaw protocol that insures the survival of the egg when ready to be fertilized.
Since the human egg is the largest cell in the body and is composed mostly of water, the formation of ice during freezing can disrupt the egg’s internal microscopic contents and its outer membrane. David Diaz, MD, FACOG and Antoine La, ELD, EMB invented a patent pending method of egg freezing that is currently used/studied at 7 fertility centers around the country.
Rarely discussed by the media is the fact that the vast majority of clinics offering egg freezing today have never even attempted to thaw a single one of their patients’ eggs. This is a glaring example of why egg freezing is still considered “investigational.” Nevertheless, in the hands of experienced practitioners who practice the art of egg freezing, the success rate in the favorable patient age group approximates those of a fresh IVF cycle. Egg freezing and thawing should be left to veteran experts who perform it frequently and practice it well.
Press Release October 14, 2010
First Frozen Egg Baby Celebrates Fifth Birthday at West Coast Fertility Centers
Cadyn is a very special little girl. Although she turned five years old on October 6, 2010, the eggs from which she was conceived were frozen in 2001 at the egg freezing program at West Coast Fertility Centers, located in Orange County, California. West Coast is considered one of the leading Centers in the country specializing in the field of fertility preservation. The Center pioneered a freezing method called the Landa Freezing Technology capable of storing embryos and eggs for young patients with cancer and women who wish to extend their fertile years until they are ready to start a family.
Press Release August 10, 2010
Egg Freezing Liberates Women from the Biologic Clock—Learn How with Upcoming Seminar & Webinar
On September 1st, 2010, West Coast Fertility Centers will sponsor a unique educational seminar to educate and empower women on the topic of preserving their fertility. Whether for medical reasons or personal choice, women can learn how to liberate themselves from the biologic clock.
Press Release November 30, 2009
Frozen Egg Bank Network Expands Coast to Coast to Help Prospective Parents Start a Family
Frozen Egg Bank, Inc. (FEB) has launched a new era in reproductive medicine as a group of charter member IVF centers in six states – California, Nevada, Utah, New York, New Jersey and Tennessee – join the national provider of human egg freezing and thawing services. The network is designed to provide fertility preservation by freezing the healthy eggs of young women for medical or elective reasons.
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Press Release January 16, 2009
Egg Freezing – ABC KGO-TV News Interview
On January 16, 2009, Dr. David Diaz met with Carolyn Johnson, an ABC News producer and spoke on Frozen Egg Bank, Inc.’s latest developments on unfertilized egg freezing. This revolutionary development of the freezing of oocytes or unfertilized eggs is a fertility procedure now available for women or couples wishing to safely preserve their eggs.
Press Release November 30, 2009
Egg Freeze Turns Back Clock – CBS News Online
The freezing of sperm and of embryos are routine parts of today’s infertility treatments. But freezing a woman’s unfertilized eggs is a much newer technique that may also allow healthy women to save their eggs for use later in life if they want to delay having children.
On The Early Show’s infertility series, Dr. David Diaz gives information on how to freeze a woman’s eggs and the possibilities this procedure offers.
Watch Educational Video: Cancer Patient Freezes Eggs
Watch Educational Video: Safety of Egg Freezing
Press Release July 22, 2005
Orange County Fertility Center Banks on Frozen Eggs Among the First Centers to Offer Egg Banking – The Orange County Register, July 22, 2005
Women delaying childbirth or searching for a more cost-effective means of obtaining donor eggs can now take advantage of an egg bank at West Coast Fertility Centers in Fountain Valley. As reported by MSNBC news on July 20, 2005, there are only a few specialized fertility centers offering egg freezing as an option to fertility patients.
After years of research and testing, West Coast has perfected the process of freezing, thawing and fertilizing a woman’s eggs.
Press Release January 15, 2009
Fertility in Reserve – Article in L.A. Times February 2, 2002
After years of technical obtacles, scientists have found ways to freeze eggs for later use, helping women whose ability to have babies is threatened by disease or aging.
The bad news piled up on Shannon Lee faster than she could absorb it. At 31, she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Not only would she need a double mastectomy, the subsequent radiation and chemotherapy could leave her sterile, ending her dream of having a baby. But Lee’s doctor gave her hope.