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A medical procedure for children and adolescent chemotherapy and radiation therapy patients in Calgary provides an option to have a biological kid in the future.University of Calgary researchers have worked on offering a new procedure to preserve future fertility options for young cancer patients.
OTC involves removing a portion of the patient's ovary through laparoscopy, using a camera and small incisions in the abdomen, before cancer treatment begins. Slow freezing is then used to preserve the tissue, to implant it back in the patient in the future. Shu Foong, a clinical assistant professor at the University of Calgary's Cumming School of Medicine, has spearheaded work to offer an ovarian tissue cryopreservation program in Calgary.
"It is our way to say, as a medical community, that there is hope, that we do believe in the ability for them to fight this and to look forward to the future," Foong said.Foong added there's also ongoing research into offering similar tissue preservation for young patients with testes, and that research is ongoing into growing eggs in the lab from the tissue, without needing to re-implant it.
He said that before this procedure, there weren't any fertility preservation options for these young patients. "To have new options where they can pursue a curative option in addition to having the possibility of fertility preservation is really practice-changing and life-changing for these families," Guilcher said.
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