When 38-year-old Melbourne woman Sarah looks at her one-year-old baby, Etta, she sees a precious gift that she and her husband might never have been granted.
"At the time, the main things I was worried about were, 'Am I going to die?' And things like, 'Is my hair going to fall out?'" she said. Those are special milestones for any family, but even more so for Sarah and her husband, Gabriel, who had been through a long and difficult journey over a period of 10 years to get there.
When the woman completes her cancer treatment, the tissue can be defrosted and inserted back into her abdomen if she decides she wants to try to start a family. Dr Stern said that, around the world, about 170 women have fallen pregnant after using their frozen ovarian tissue. When Sarah was two years in remission, she was advised it was safe to reinsert the ovarian tissue and to try to fall pregnant."I knew I dad to do it": Zahli Habel underwent ovarian tissue freezing after being diagnosed with cancer.
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