Pioneering operation for Nathan, 9, offers hope of fatherhood at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford

Brain tumor boy has testicular tissue frozen with the hope he can have children later on

A nine-year-old boy with a brain tumour has become the first in the UK to have testicular tissue frozen with the hope he can have children later in life.

Nathan Crawford has undergone radiotherapy and chemotherapy to shrink his inoperable tumour but the treatment could render him infertile.