单身女性流行冷冻卵子

• 出 处: 健康
• 发表日期: 2013年11期
• 关键词: 综合医院 未婚女子 结婚年龄

随着现代韩国人的结婚年龄越来越晚,越来越多的韩国单身女性将卵子冷冻起来,准备将来怀孕时使用。以韩国某综合医院为例,那里的“卵子银行”已经储存了107位女性的卵子,包括36名未婚女子。过去,冷冻卵子多限于那些被诊断出癌症或白血病的女子,因为她们担心化疗过程会损害卵子。但是现在许多单身女性将卵子冷冻储存起

As modern Koreans get married later and later, more and more single women in Korea freeze their eggs in preparation for their future pregnancy. Take a Korean general hospital for example, where “Egg Bank” has stored 107 eggs for women, including 36 unmarried women. In the past, frozen eggs were mostly limited to those women who had been diagnosed with cancer or leukemia because they were concerned that the chemotherapy process could damage the egg. But now many single women store their eggs frozen