| ■ Doctors Preserve Eggs from Young Cancer Patients | 07.07.09 |
| Israeli scientists say they have extracted eggs from girls as young as five who have cancer, possibly giving these patients a way to conceive when they reach maturity. Aggressive chemotherapy needed to fight childhood cancer sometimes causes infertility, and the artificially matured eggs may someday enable pregnancy for these girls, who ranged between five and 10 years of age, said researchers from Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem. The eggs were extracted and then frozen, BBC News Online reports. The researchers were to present their findings at a fertility conference in Lyon, France, later this week. |