Olivia Willis
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783 appearances
14 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2017
last heard May 2021
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And the idea there is basically to screen out chromosomally abnormal embryos and make sure that the embryos they do transfer kind of have the best shot of successfully implanting.
Well, you're right.
So the reality is, I guess, that age is still, you know, the single most important factor when it comes to fertility and certainly, sadly, a factor that IVF can't change.
The 2017 report found that the birth rate for women aged 30 to 34 was about 24%.
That falls to about 10% for women over the age of 40.
And so that means, you know, for nine out of kind of every 10 women who are undergoing IVF treatment above the age of 40, they won't be successful in that first round.
Interestingly, though, the report also showed that about a quarter of the women who actually undergo treatment are aged 40 and above.
And so I think, you know, that's probably a reflection of broader kind of societal changes.
Women are increasingly having children older.
But I think it also tells us that the belief that IVF can kind of overcome age-related infertility is pretty widespread.
And that certainly women over the age of 40 are still being offered IVF treatment when their chances are fairly slim.
No, it is not easy in Australia.
So clinics aren't required to publish their pregnancy or live birth rates.
And that means that patients kind of have little way of really knowing which clinics, I guess, are the best or worst performers when it comes to IVF success.
That can be an issue because we know that the quality of IVF care and success rates vary.
So this Ansard report actually found that the worst performing clinic that had a birth rate of about 9%, while the kind of top performing clinic, it was about a third of women, 33% or 34%, took home a baby after the first treatment.
There have been kind of growing calls, particularly in recent years, that IVF clinics should publish their data.
There's actually a bill before the Senate at the moment calling for exactly that.
The fertility industry kind of says the solution isn't really as straightforward as just publishing the data.
There's a few reasons why clinics might have kind of varying rates of success.
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