Danish researchers have found that ovarian transplants could restore a woman's fertility after chemotherapy and radiation.
Women who undergo cancer treatment typically have a less than 5 percent chance of getting pregnant afterward, NPR reports. "Obviously the thing that interests them the most is to survive cancer," said Claus Yding Andersen, a reproductive physiologist who helped conduct the study. "But immediately after that they would say they are really interested in maintaining their fertility."
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