OB GYN News, May 15th, 2001
TORONTO -- Researchers who transplanted a cervical cancer patient's ovary into her forearm last year have now successfully stimulated ovulation and retrieved oocytes from it, according to the head of the team.
However, they were unsuccessful in fertilizing an egg to create an embryo.
"I think it's just a matter of time because we've come so close. Our egg retrieval and stimulation techniques still need to be perfected," Dr. Kutluk Oktay told this newspaper.
Last year the patient had her ovaries removed before radiotherapy to treat cervical cancer. They transplanted one of the ovaries into...
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