Germ cell-damaging therapy

 

Procedure

If you would like to have your sperm sample frozen at the Erlanger Samenbank, please contact us by telephone (09131/89 84 11 or 0170/ 709 55 51) or by E-Mail.

Make an appointment with a doctor at the Erlanger Samenbank with a subsequent appointment for sperm collection and (if possible) do not ejaculate for 3-5 days beforehand.

1. Registration

Please register for your appointment at the Kinderwunsch Erlangen reception.

2. Please bring

• Your insurance card.
• The completed cryopreservation questionnaire (see download area).
• A certificate from your treating physicians stating that sperm freezing is necessary because of your tumor or Germ-cell-damaging therapy and that you have been informed.
•If available, documentation of prior surgery and planned therapy (e.g., chemotherapy, which medications, how many cycles?).

3. Appointment

At the appointment, you will first have a medical consultation at our facility, to which you are welcome to bring a companion. You will also receive all other contract documents, which you can view here (Storage contract for sperm samples, Costs for self-paying cryopreservation).

We will then take a blood sample to exclude HIV/hepatitis B and C, as required by commercial law. You then give us your sperm sample in a sterile cup in a quiet room. As a rule, we will inform you within a few hours (the next day at the latest) about the quality of the semen sample and, if necessary, recommend that you provide another sample at a later date. Allow approximately 90 minutes for the entire visit.

4. Report

Finally, if you wish, you and your doctors will receive a written report of the semen quality and the number of frozen straws (sample containers) by mail.