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Infertile patients cannot afford to wait for treatment while their eggs get older.

Dr. Sherman Silber, Infertility Center of St. Louis, is offering video consultations for patients who need to plan now for their treatment while stay-at-home orders are in place. He is talking to and evaluating patients in their home to comply with social distancing measures.

Dr. Silber is discovering that patients actually prefer this method of telemedicine consultation over the conventional office visit. Patients have conveyed that “it is so much more convenient and less stressful” to have a telemedicine personal consultation than to take a day off from work to travel to the doctor’s office and sit with other nervous patients in the waiting room.

The COVID-19 pandemic is thus changing much of the way we will do things in the future, and for the better. “Our patients are surprisingly much happier with this approach. Of course, at some point we need to perform hands on treatment. But with this new manner of seeing patients, we can come to the right diagnosis and treatment plan for most patients more efficiently, quickly, and painlessly, with no loss of personal one-on-one communication.” This is a very welcome new era of telemedicine that has been forced on us by the current difficult times.

Silber, St. Luke’s help cancer survivor have baby with frozen ovary

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by Kelsey Volkmann

July 16, 2010


For three decades, Dr. Sherman Silber has been treating difficult cases at The Infertility Center of St. Louis on the campus of St. Luke's Hospital in Chesterfield.
For three decades, Dr. Sherman Silber has been treating difficult cases at The Infertility Center of St. Louis on the campus of St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield.

A Columbia, Ill., woman is the first cancer survivor in the United States to give birth to a baby as a result of ovary freezing and transplantation, thanks to fertility preservation procedures performed at St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield.

Thirteen years ago, when Amy Tucker, then 19, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She thought the chemotherapy and radiation would rob her of ever having children.

But then one of her doctors told her about Dr. Sherman Silber, a pioneer in fertility preservation and director of the Infertility Center of St. Louis at St. Luke’s Hospital. Silber removed one of Tucker’s ovaries and froze it.

In January 2009, Tucker returned to Silber so he could transplant her ovarian tissue [watch news video] that had been frozen more than a decade earlier. And on May 27, Tucker, 31, gave birth to a baby boy[watch news video], Grant Patrick Tucker.

Though the first cancer survivor in the U.S. to give birth as a result of these fertility preservation procedures, Tucker is one of a couple dozen women worldwide who have chosen ovary freezing to protect them from the sterilizing effects of cancer treatment.

One in every 250 young women today is a cancer survivor, but their cancer treatment usually leaves them sterile.


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