IVF hope for child cancer cases
(sz) Israeli scientists say that they have extracted and matured eggs from girls as young as five to freeze for possible fertility treatment in the future. The team said that the technique could give child cancer sufferers left infertile by chemotherapy treatment a shot at parenthood later in life.
The team took eggs from a group of girls between the ages of five and 10 who had cancer. They artificially matured the eggs to make them viable and froze them. Experts had previously thought the eggs of pre-pubescent girls could not be used in this way.
Dr Ariel Revel, from Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem, is to present the team’s findings at a fertility conference in Lyon, France, this week. more…
From: »The BBC«