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. 2020 Feb 15;37(4):883–890. doi: 10.1007/s10815-020-01715-8

Table 1.

Group categorization

Group Name Description
1 Cancer Cancer group*
2 Elective/family planning preservation Elective, planned fertility delay preservation group
3 Infertility Infertility diagnosis listed including endometriosis, ovulatory dysfunction, polycystic ovary syndrome, tubal disease or occlusion, recurrent pregnancy loss, functional hypothalamic amenorrhea, male factor infertility, unexplained infertility, need for preimplantation genetic testing, premature ovarian failure, secondary amenorrhea, uterine septum, or other malformation
4 Medical Medical indication listed, including diminished ovarian reserve, Turner syndrome, Fragile X, prior oophorectomy, BRCA, diabetes, hyperprolactinemia, lupus, same sex couple, gender dysphoria, seizure disorder, history of organ transplantation, Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome, HIV discordance, migraine, IgA nephropathy, nephrotic kidney disease, thalassemia, cervical stenosis, hypothyroidism, balanced translocation or other genetic mutation, aplastic anemia, heart disease, autoimmune hepatitis, Addison’s disease, Fanconi’s anemia, multiple sclerosis, psoriatic arthritis, unspecified immunological disease, antiphospholipid syndrome without RPL or other thrombophilia, history of hysterectomy, bipolar disorder, Wegener’s granulomatosis, Wilson’s disease, stiff person syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, sickle cell disease, history of fetal anomaly, and unspecified medical egg freeze

•Top 2 most common indications in bold

*The most common cancer diagnoses were (1) unspecified cancer – “pretreatment before chemotherapy,” “cancer,” “oncofertility” (n ~ 800). (2) Breast cancer (~550). (3) Lymphoma/leukemia (~ 250)