IVF hope for child cancer cases
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Israeli scientists extract eggs from young girls, a move that could let child cancer patients become parents.
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This is the latest attempt to find a way to avoid infertility due to cancer treatment -- in this case, radiotherapy. Freezing eggs is not a reliable method, since the thawing process can cause fatal damage and chromosomal abnormalities.
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Pia Awal was in the midst of planning her October wedding when a routine doctor's visit brought devastating news. After more than a year of remission, her cancer was back. Now mid-October marks a different kind of milestone &#151; the time by which doctors say Awal, who has acute myelogenous leukemia, must receive a lifesaving stem cell, or bone marrow, transplant.
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Thousands of British women left infertile after cancer treatment have been given new hope by the world&#39;s first birth of a baby following an ovarian transplant.
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A County Down couple get the go-ahead to begin embryo screening treatment which could save their son's life.
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Researchers have discovered a genetic mutation that causes an aggressive form of childhood leukemia and said on Thursday it may mean that drugs being developed for Alzheimer's disease could also provide a better treatment for the cancer.
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Screening embryos for chromosomal defects, a fast-growing practice aimed at helping older women to have a baby, in fact reduces the chance of a successful pregnancy, doctors reported here on Wednesday.
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Many young women diagnosed with breast cancer overestimate their risk of becoming infertile while undergoing treatment, a new study shows.
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WASHINGTON The first new cancer drug in ten years that is specifically designed to help children is a step closer to approval. An advisory panel at the Food and Drug Administration is recommending the use
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Doctors have extracted, matured and frozen eggs from girls as young as five in a move that may allow children with cancer to become parents when they grow up, scientists said on Sunday.
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A woman left infertile after cancer treatment takes her bid  to use frozen IVF embryos to have a baby to Europe.
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The government is looking into calls to lift a ban on creating embryos from dying children to aid key research.
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NEW YORK  - A new study provides "reassuring" evidence that babies born from in vitro fertilization with preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) -- in which a cell or two are removed from the developing embryo to screen for genetic problems -- are not at increased risk of birth defects.
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A procedure that encourages an egg to begin embryo development without being fertilized could suggest a new way to produce stem cells, at least for certain patients.
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Ouarda Touirat, her day-old baby daughter nestling in her arms, said on Friday she had never lost hope that she could conceive after cancer treatment left her infertile.
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Mixing cells and eggs to be allowed in search for new medical treatments.
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A growing number of couples are screening embryos to detect a predisposition to cancers that may or may not develop later in life, and are often treatable if they do.