Recognized national and international experts discuss the newest techniques of fertility preservation in Quirón Barcelona

on 29-30 September: reproduction assisted Chiron Symposium I

-I Symposium on assisted reproduction of Chiron hospital group meets on 29 and 30 September in hospital Quirón Barcelona recognised specialists under the motto: preserving fertility in the 21st century.

-new techniques to preserve eggs and embryos achieve pregnancy after having lost fertility in women who decide to delay motherhood or cancer. Among men, semen freezing applies for years with the same end.

-today’s woman decides to delay motherhood, but how and when is it possible? The 30th, the classroom Social opens the possibility to attend live – and to participate – the presentations and round table through the web of assisted reproduction of Chiron: http://www.quiron.es/reproduccion-asistida.

Barcelona, September of 2011. Many of the large national and international assisted reproduction specialists meet the next 29 and 30 September in Hospital Chiron Barcelona, which will discuss the latest techniques to preserve fertility, both in cases in which decides to delay motherhood by choice in processes of cancer in reproductive age.

I Symposium on assisted reproduction of Chiron discuss innovative techniques as the vitrification of oocytes, which allows to preserve eggs over a long period of time with high rates of survival and viability. Preservation of fertility is particularly important in today’s society, thanks to early diagnosis and therapeutic advances the percentage of healing of tumors is increasingly higher. For this reason, in the treatment goal is no longer only curing the disease, but also the preservation of fertility so that patients can conceive children in the future, once overcome cancer.

On the first day of the Symposium, Thursday 29, the lectures shall be borne by two of the most reputable international experts in the field. Kutluk Oktay, doctor, director of the Division of reproductive medicine and infertility of the New York Medical College, will analyze the latest developments in the preservation of fertility in patients with breast cancer. For his part, doctor Jeremy Chang, embryologist and scientific director of the Reproductive Biology Associates in Atlanta, United States.UU, will explain the techniques of vitrification of oocytes that are carried out in United States.

On the second day, Friday 30, the main event will be a panel discussion moderated by journalist Marta Robles to outstanding women in the social and economic sphere discuss about why today’s women delaying motherhood, what problems leads to the imbalance between the right to be a mother biological age and the age that makes the current pace of society, and what possibilities exist to be a mother at a later age. This debate – and the three previous presentations – will be broadcast live via the web of assisted reproduction of Chiron. At the same time, questions and queries about the delay of motherhood, which will be included in the time of debate can send through this website.

Chiron is the first hospital group Spanish in absolute numbers of assisted reproduction treatments. More than 15,000 children have been born since the beginning of the 1990s as result of made in Chiron, that today in day treatments has six units of assisted reproduction located in hospitals Chiron and two monographs centres in Bilbao and Pamplona. In 2010, Quirón attended their units assisted more than 5,000 couples, they were more than 25,000 consultations of fertility and more than 6,000 cycles.

One of the main advantages of assisted reproduction of Chiron centers is that they are integrated in a hospital, allowing all additional explorations in an environment of high quality care and enables interaction with other services, such as the Oncology, for the conservation of egg or sperm in patients who will undergo chemotherapy. In addition, all these treatments, performed in a hospital setting, added safety to the patient.

Hospitable Group on Chiron

Currently, group hospital Chiron has seven general hospitals in Barcelona, Bizkaia, Madrid, Málaga, San Sebastián, Valencia and Zaragoza, as well as of a day hospital in Zaragoza – each of them has a unit of assisted reproduction – and two monographs centres of assisted reproduction in Bilbao and Pamplona.

Chiron is the first hospital in number of aided private patients and health care area of new construction in Spain, with a total of 207,000 sq.. All its centers are equipped with the most advanced equipment in diagnosis, treatment, and telemedicine, and in total has 2,700 employees, manages 917 hospital beds, 104 beds of UCI, 103 operating theatres and 537 clinics.

Group Hospital Chiron has agreements with most medical insurers nationwide and in 2010 treated in its hospitals 254.445 er, 87.715 income, 62.340 interventions, 6.410 births and 763.374 consultations.