Doctors have managed to extract eggs from five-year-old girls and freeze them for use when they are old enough to have children.
The scientific advance, which had been thought impossible, will enable girls suffering childhood cancers such as leukaemia to become parents in later life. Thousands are left infertile each year after undergoing chemotherapy.It also opens the possibility of storing girls’ eggs to protect them against any form of infertility in later life.
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