Frozen ovary hope for sterile cancer patients

WOMEN made infertile by intensive cancer treatment could soon benefit from a technique being developed to transplant frozen tissue from ovaries.

US scientists removed ovarian tissue from a 30-year-old woman before she underwent chemotherapy for breast cancer, leaving her infertile.

Six years later, the tissue was placed under the skin of her abdomen, with ovarian function returning after three months and eggs being harvested.