Children in England undergoing cancer treatment will have the chance to save their fertility, with the NHS starting a new service to freeze reproductive tissue.
The multimillion-pound national paediatric fertility preservation service will use a new treatment that enables female cancer patients to have children, even after chemotherapy and radiotherapy. It will give hope to 750 children a year who would otherwise be left infertile.
The procedure has been offered on a pro-bono basis by doctors and nurses over the past decade, meaning hundreds of children missed out annually in some areas. From April, it will be available to all children.
The technique involves removing an ovary which has immature eggs, cutting it into strips, and freezing it within 24 hours. When reimplanted later, the
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