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Fertility monitoring (odds ratio of preducting non‐attendance)
OR (95% CI) Significance
No treatment side effects
5.72 (2.10‐15.56)
0.001
Bad experience of banking sperm
1.82 (1.17‐2.82)
0.007
Negative attitudes to disposal
1.56 (1.01‐2.42)
0.048
Pacey et al., (2012) Human Reproduction 11: 3132‐3139
Men who don’t respond to letters
Interviews with six men who had never responded to letters from the sperm bank found:
• Their experience at diagnosis was traumatic and they had little understanding about why they had banked sperm and they did not realise that fertility could recover after cancer treatment;
• The thought of returning to the sperm bank stirred up issues they were emotionally unable to deal with and they were scared about being told they were not fertile;
• They did not want to be put under pressure to dispose of banked samples and held onto the thought of potentially fathering a child later in life (even though it was not always realistic.
Pacey et al., (2014) Human Fertility 17: 278‐284
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