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06.28.05
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Israeli medical breakthrough permits cancer survivor to give birth
By: ISRAEL21c Staff   
Published: June 28, 2005   
 
Offering hope to millions of women who face losing their fertility after chemotherapy, Israeli doctors have succeeded for the first time in reversing infertility due to cancer treatment by freezing ovarian tissue and later transplanting it. The result -- a healthy 6.6 pound girl born this week.

This appears to be the first time scientists have managed to preserve fertility by freezing ovarian tissue and then transplanting it in humans, researchers said.

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Israeli breakthrough - Frozen ovarian tissue transplant reverses infertility  - (ISRAEL21c)  06.28.2005
 
 

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