A WOMAN has become pregnant after having thin slices of her ovaries removed and frozen during cancer treatment, and then reimplanted. Other teams have tried IVF with eggs taken from such patients, but without success.
In 1997, Jacques Donnez’s team at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) in Belgium froze slices of the woman’s ovaries prior to her receiving chemotherapy. In February 2003 the slices were reimplanted, and 11 months later the woman, who is in her thirties, became pregnant.
“She fell pregnant completely naturally, through having sex,” Donnez told a radio station last month. “She is very happy.” The woman is expected to give birth…
