Embryo Cryopreservation in Ovarian Dysgerminoma: A Case Report

Ovarian dysgerminoma is the most common ovarian malignant germ cell tumor in young females of the reproductive age-group.The disease usually becomes symptomatic and tends to present in its early stages and has decent survival rates with surgery and chemotherapy.This necessitates the need to consider the fertility needs of each patient and timely counsel them about the possibilities for fertility preservation as the survivors may wish to reproduce and that may become an imperative aspect of their post-treatment quality of life.Oocyte and embryo cryopreservation are standard methods of fertility preservation and are well-accepted in selected oncology patients.Timing the fertility-related treatment may play a crucial role considering these patients' need for further oncological treatment with chemo or radiotherapy.We, with this, present a postoperative case of ovarian dysgerminoma who presented to our IVF center for embryo cryopreservation before chemotherapy.