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In This Issue
FDA Letter
NIAW
Ferring Contest
RTL Forms
Shipping Insurance
Where in the World is RTL?
Industry News

Welcome to our newest FPN members

 

The Fertility Center of Charleston, in

Mt. Pleasant, SC

 April Awareness

Testicular Cancer Awareness Month

 

Young Adult Cancer Awareness Week

April 1-7

 

National Infertility Awareness Week

April 21-27 

 

 April is

Testicular Cancer Awareness Month.

Here are some great websites that provide education and support for your patients.

  

Single Jingles

 

TC Awareness Foundation

 

TC-Cancer

 

ASCO's

TC Fact Sheet

 

 There's an App for that!
 
RTL's Fertility Preservation App for iOS and Droid
 
RTL's  
financial assistance program offers discounted storage to qualified cancer patients.
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RTL site directors will continue to offer

 Fertility Preservation presentations to local cancer centers in 2013. 

If your center's staff is willing to co-present with us at a local cancer center, please

contact Joy.

Thank you!!

 

 

 

Walgreens & Ferring's

h.e.a.r.t.BEAT

Program provides free fertility meds and resources

to cancer patients.

 

ALL cancer patients qualify!

 

 

FDA Posts Cease Manufacturing of HCT/P's Letter

 

The FDA issued an order to Cease Manufacturing of HCT/P's to a New York fertility center on March 1, 2013.  To ensure that we remain aware of errors that can occur,

 

View the letter on the FDA's Orders and Public Notifications Page.

 

 

 

Reglera  can help you understand your responsibilities under the FDA regulations. Reglera's services include consulting and outsourcing, including Donor Eligibility Outsourcing. Reglera and ReproTech have worked together to develop the first of its kind, automated web accessible system to assist in the donor eligibility determination process. This system is specifically designed to provide tissue organizations with the ability to fully automate the donor eligibility process in a way that is not only compliant with FDA 21 CFR 1271, but also speeds up eligibility determination and saves money. For more information, call 303-832-8200 or email info@reglera.com. 

 

NIAW 2013 

 

Let us know what your center is doing to support NIAW on RTL's Facebook page

View RESOLVE's list of Educational Events

supporting NIAW to find out the excting events other centers and organizations have planned! 

 

If your center would like copies of our

Fertility Preservation 101 booklet,

please contact Joy

 

Ferring's Fertility Video Contest

 

Patients may enter Ferring's Heart to Heart Video Contest for a chance to win up to $15,000 toward thier child's education.  Submission deadline is May 31.Heart2Heart 

 

Completion of Advanced Directives and SIP Form

 

In an effort to avoid legal disputes upon a patient's death, we ask your cooperation in encouraging your patients to complete the following ReproTech forms when appropriate.

 

Identification of Sexually Intimate Partner (SIP), Form O REC 300 

This form is signed by the patient directing specimens to the sexually intimate partner upon the patient's death.  This form is referenced in RTL's Cryostorage Agreement, but many patients overlook it. 

We ask your cooperation in pointing this out to unmarried patients

when appropriate.  Please contact your local RTL office for a copy of the form.

 

Advanced Directives sections: 

Please advise your patients that it is in their best interest to complete the Advanced Directives sections on the RTL Cryostorage Agreements.  If a patient is not married, he/she should complete this section, as marital status may change.  RTL staff is discussing revisions to the Advanced Directives sections to provide patients with clarification.

 

Thank you for your cooperation.

 

ReproTech offers low cost Specimen Shipping Insurance

 

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               Did you know? 

ReproTech offers Specimen Shipping Insurance through IMA, starting at just

                  $19.50

 

           View Insurance Flyer      

 

To receive copies of the Specimen Shipping Insurance flyer to include in your patient packets, contact Joy.

 

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    Where in the

    World is ReproTech?

  

We hope to see you during some of our 2013 conferences.

 

April 6 - 9

American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) Spring Meeting, in Tucson, AZ; featuring Fertility Preservation presentations

  

April 17 - 21

Pacific Coast Reproductive Society (PCRS) Annual Meeting, in

Indian Wells, CA

 

April 25 - 27

IntegraMed's Council of Physicians and Scientists (COPS)

Annual Meeting, in Irving, TX

 

May 3 - 4

Clinical Embryologist's Summit at the University of Wisconsin, in

Madison, WI

 

May 15 - 17

Association of Pediatric Oncology Social Workers (APOSW) Annual conference, in Minneapolis, MN

 

May 16 - 18

American Association of Bioanalysts (AAB) Annual Meeting and Educational Conference, in Las Vegas, NV

 

June 5 - 7

Association of Oncology Social Work (AOSW) Annual conference,

in San Diego, CA

 

July 21 - 24  NOTE:  these are revised dates!

UCLA's Annual IVF and Embryo Transfer CME Course in

Santa Barbara, CA

 

August 17

Florida Society of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (FSREI)

Annual Meeting in Palm Beach, FL

 

September 9 - 10

Northwestern University's Oncofertility Conference, in Chicago, IL

 

October 2 - 6

American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) Annual Meeting, in

National Harbor, MD

 

October 13 - 17

American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)

Annual Meeting, in Boston, MA

 

November 15 - 17

Academy of Oncology Nurse Navigators (AONN) Annual Conference,

in Memphis, TN 

 

Industry News

 

What's Ahead for the Affordable Care Act in 2013

 

New ARCHITECT AFP Test Can Help Detect Testicular Cancer

 

Ectopic Pregnancy Treatments Preserve Fertility

 

Sperm Quality Rises in Winter

 

RESOLVE Advocacy Day is May 8 in Washington, DC

 

Chemo Drug May Help Fight Cancer, Preserve Fertility

 

 

  

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