New York, NY - Initial reports were released earlier this week of a patient in Brussels that had her ovarian tissue removed prior to cancer treatment, and is now pregnant after the transplant...
Doctors from the Universite Catholique de Louvain in Brussels removed and froze ovarian tissue from the unidentified woman before she had chemotherapy treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma.
The news was only announced at the annual meeting of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE). The unidentified 25-year old woman is 25 weeks pregnant, with the child due this October.
Professor Jacques Donnez and his team "have managed to achieve what no other team in the world has yet been able to do -- given a young woman, who underwent cryopreservation of ovarian tissue prior to treatment, the gift of pregnancy," the university hospital said in a statement.
A spokeswoman for the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA), which regulates fertility treatment in Britain, said the technique is very much in its early stages.
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