Women must understand costs and success rate of egg freezing

Analysis: Around four in five cases are unsuccessful, writes Maya Oppenheim

Egg freezing is when a woman's eggs are taken from her ovaries, frozen and stored for use at a later date in a bid to prolong fertility (Getty)

Egg freezing may have become significantly more popular in recent years but women need to be properly educated about the costs and success rate before embarking on the lengthy medical process.

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and the British Fertility Society (BFS) have called for women to be adequately informed about egg freezing in new research.

Egg freezing – in which eggs are gathered from a woman’s ovaries, frozen and stored for use at a later date in a bid to prolong fertility – cannot be accessed through the NHS for non-medical reasons and must be accessed through the private health sector.