Proceedings of the Oncofertility Congress of the "Freezing Ovarian Tissue and Oocytes" (FOTO) Consortium Brussels.

Dolmans, Marie-Madeleine [UCL] Demeestere, Isabelle Anckaert, Ellen De Vos, Michel

(eng) Since the nascence of oncofertility, a discipline striving to mitigate the impact from cancer and cancer treatment on fertility, multicenter networks have been set up to share knowledge, enhance clinical expertise in referral centers, and facilitate follow-up studies of patient cohorts. In 2018, three pioneering centers in fertility preservation located in the Brussels Capital Region in Belgium joined forces to establish an oncofertility research consortium named “Freezing Ovarian Tissue and Oocytes (FOTO) Consortium” with the aim of strengthening multicenter scientific collaboration. This consortium consolidates the existing clinical collaboration between these centers which led to the first birth of a healthy child from transplanted frozen-thawed ovarian tissue in 2004. [...]