Cancer Treatment Woman has Ovary Transplanted into Arm
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A woman undergoing cancer treatment has had an ovary transplanted into her left arm, it was revealed today. Despite its unusual new location, the ovary is said to be functioning normally.
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A French woman who two years ago became the first person to receive a face transplant has recovered with remarkably good aesthetic results and has gradually regained normal skin sensation and control of her facial muscles, doctors reported yesterday in the first detailed account of her progress.
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Removal of the ovaries  (oophorectomy) plus tamoxifen, as adjuvant, or "add-on"  therapy, significantly improves survival in premenopausal women  with operable breast cancer, a study indicates.
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In a groundbreaking achievement, Belgian doctors announced that a woman had given birth to a healthy baby, seven years after storing her ovarian tissue before receiving treatment for cancer.
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A heart patient who had muscle cells transferred from his leg to his heart makes good progress.
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"It's a dream," proclaimed the beaming 32-year-old new mother Friday as she cuddled her day-old baby girl, born following a pioneering ovarian tissue transplant performed after the woman was made infertile by chemotherapy.
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Jennifer Sutton's heart almost killed her. On Tuesday she got her first look at the culprit. Three months after the defective organ was cut from her body, the 23-year-old transplant patient came to contemplate a mass of pink and yellow tissue suspended in a transparent container at a medical museum in London.
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THURSDAY, Aug. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Bone marrow transplantation restored reproductive capability to female mice that had undergone fertility-destroying chemotherapy, according to a study by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
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For the first time, doctors have used stem cells from liposuctioned fat to fix breast defects in women who have had cancerous lumps removed.
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A woman with cancer has had her fertility preserved thanks to doctors who transplanted her ovary into her arm.
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A therapy that temporarily shuts down the ovaries could protect cancer patients' fertility, say researchers.
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Transplanting bone marrow along with kidneys reduces the risk of organ rejection.
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A woman undergoing treatment for cervical cancer had one of her healthy ovaries successfully transplanted into her upper arm, in order to maintain hormonal function, a Dutch team reports.
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(WebMD) It sounds a little like science fiction, but researchers in the Netherlands report they were able to preserve fertility in a 29-year-old cervical cancer patient by removing her ovary prior to treatment and placing it inside her upper arm.
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TUESDAY, Sept. 28 (HealthDayNews) -- Women with early ovarian cancer may benefit from chemotherapy in addition to surgery.
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A woman has become the first in the world to give birth to a live baby following an ovarian transplant in a breakthrough that could allow doctors to reverse the menopause and restore fertility to women in middle age.
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MONDAY, Nov. 8 (HealthDayNews) -- Surgery to transplant a woman's entire ovary to her upper arm is feasible and can preserve fertility in patients undergoing radiation treatments that leave them prematurely menopausal, a new report says.