A woman who had her ovaries removed and frozen before she began chemotherapy will undergo to embryo implantation, which will be conducted by British surgeons. If the procedure succeeds, this Dubai woman could become the first woman in the world to become pregnant after having an ovary frozen before the onset of puberty.
At the young age, Moaza Alnatrooshi was being treated for beta thalassaemia, an inherited blood disorder. So, to avoid damaging her ovaries from the chemotherapy treatments, her mother had her ovaries removed and frozen it when she just eight years old.
Now, the 23-year-old woman who is keen to be pregnant is hoping that her frozen ovary would allow her to conceive. "My mum did this huge thing for me which is that she froze my ovary and saved it for me until I grew up and used it," Alnatrooshi, who is staying in Britain for her treatment, told The Sunday Times.
"I want to believe I will be pregnant. I cannot wait for that day," the hopeful woman added. "I would like to say to all women that they have got to have hope."
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According to Mail Online, the news gives hope to thousands of women who are unable to conceive. These women are cancer survivors and other diseases, whose reproductive organs have been damaged by the grueling treatments. It was last year when medics in Belgium revealed they managed to restore the fertility of a 28-year-old woman using her ovary tissue that had been removed and frozen when she was just 13 years old.
The woman whose tissue was removed and frozen before she began chemotherapy as a teenager, delivered her baby boy in November 2014. Now, surgeons are hoping for the success of Alnatrooshi's case as they want to give fertility hope to the women who developed cancer or have other conditions that require chemotherapy.
