A new fertility treatment may some day help women left infertile by cancer treatment to have children.
Researchers at the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility at Cornell University in New York published a study of the new treatment in Tuesday’s online issue of the journal The Lancet.
In the study, a 30-year-old American woman was successfully treated for breast cancer. Since chemotherapy can trigger early menopause, doctors had removed an ovary, cut it into sections and froze it in hopes of restoring her fertility. more…
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The longing to have a child is as old as time. Today, as people delay the age at which they begin their families, one in six couples struggles with infertility. But new and improved reproductive technologies offer people new opportunities and keep hope alive - even when the odds of actually having a baby are stacked against them.
Toronto fertility doctor Tom Hannam works on the front lines of new reproductive technologies. Dr. Hannam freezes eggs for some of his patients. Here he is, talking about these latest developments from McGill University more…
