Cancer & Pregnancy

Doctors report safer ways to help cancer patients have children

Published in Cancer Weekly, November 9th, 2004

Doctors are reporting two advances that may give women with cancer safer ways to preserve their ability to have children without compromising their chances of beating the disease.

One involves a new way to help women store eggs before having cancer treatments that often leave them infertile.

The other is a very sensitive method for checking frozen ovarian tissue for abnormal cells that could seed a relapse of cancer if transplanted back into a woman who finished treatment and wanted to have a child.

In a medical first, a Belgian woman recently gave birth after an ovarian-tissue transplant. But doctors have long worried that such...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2004-11-09)

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