Tissue Transplant Gives Hope to Women Left Infertile by Chemotherapy

Western MailMarch 10, 2004

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Women made infertile by intensive cancer treatment could soon benefit from a technique being developed to transplant frozen tissue from ovaries, say researchers.

Scientists in America removed ovarian tissue from a 30-year-old woman before she underwent chemotherapy for breast cancer, leaving her infertile.

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Tissue Transplant Gives Hope to Women Left Infertile by Chemotherapy

Six years later the tissue was placed under the skin of her abdomen, with ovarian function returning after ...

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