Understanding your Fertility
Your family. Our expertise. We’re here to deliver world-class fertility care for everyone.
Understanding Affordable Fertility Treatment
Understanding Fertility Preservation
Why the Fertility and Research Centre?
We lead the delivery of affordable fertility care and fertility preservation treatment.
The Fertility and Research Centre is a multi-disciplinary centre for clinical excellence and research in fertility, based within the Royal Hospital for Women. Not only do we lead the delivery of affordable fertility care in Australia, we specialise in fertility preservation treatments – particularly in that of children and young adults.
We serve as a clinical and academic teaching and training centre, as well as an arena for world-class translational research in assisted reproduction, clinical genetics and fertility preservation.
FRC Research
Learn more about fertility, the science of fertility treatments and our latest research findings.
Female Fertility
Female fertility preservation
Fertility preservation is the cryopreservation (freezing) of human reproductive tissue such as embryos (fertilized eggs) or ovarian tissue in female patients.
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Male Fertility
Factors that can affect male fertility
One-third of infertility cases are caused by male reproductive problems, ranging from lifestyle factors to abnormal sperm production, abnormal sperm function, abnormal sperm delivery, physical trauma or previous cancer treatment.
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Fertility & Lifestyle
Planning for a healthy pregnancy
If you are planning a pregnancy it is important to be as healthy as you can be.
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