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Infertility Treatment Act or forced sterilisation program?

Jock Findlay
Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): . || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02386.x
Published online: 2 March 2009

To the Editor: Before starting chemotherapy, many young men with cancer arrange to have their sperm stored to allow them the chance to father a child later. However, hundreds of these Australian cancer survivors have been informed that their stored sperm samples were to be destroyed by government order.


  • Infertility Treatment Authority, Melbourne, VIC.


Correspondence: ita@ita.org.au

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