Irish girls having parts of ovaries frozen to boost future chances of conceiving

Young Irish girls facing infertility through childhood illness are having parts of their ovaries frozen to boost future chances of conceiving.

While adults can freeze mature eggs and sperm, it is now possible for doctors to freeze an entire piece of ovary - from children as young as a few months old - with all the eggs in it and replant it in adulthood. She said: “We offer it patients who are at what we term high or very high risk of losing their fertility.

“When girls are having a bone marrow transplant or chemotherapy or have some genetic conditions, a lot of the eggs get destroyed very early,” explained Dr Lane.

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