Two years ago, Aditya Srivastav was diagnosed with leukemia. He was just 28 years old. Before starting treatment on Srivastav, Dr Bhawna Sirohi, head of medical oncology at Artemis Health Institute advised him to bank his semen samples as chances were high that the chemotherapy and radiation regimen could render him infertile. Srivastav agreed and froze his samples in a sperm bank. Today, two years later, Srivastav is cancer-free, married and planning a baby. Cancer and its treatment can sometimes affect a person's ability to have children but banking of eggs of cancer-afflicted women and semen of male patients tremendously increases their chances of parenthood once free from the disease. Sirohi says, "I always ask my patients, even those aged 40, to bank their samples before chemotherapy or radiation in case they want to experience parenthood. The samples are saved for life in liquid nitrogen. "
To preserve semen samples is easy.