Can I give birth after treatment for cancer?

In Russia for the first time there were deliveries at the woman who has passed the full course of treatment from a cancer.

The Obninsk Radiological Center developed a conception method. At the same time, vitrification was used, based on the rapid freezing of tissues. In this center of the patient appealed in 2010 with a diagnosis of thyroid cancer of the fourth stage, after which she was operated. Then I received a course of radioiodine therapy. One of the side effects of this treatment is that it negatively affects a woman's genital function. Therefore, before the radioiodine therapy, the woman was taken genetic material from the ovaries and frozen( subjected to vitrification).

Three years after the last treatment, the oncological risk period has expired and it became possible to transplant healthy ovarian tissue, which helped in the restoration of childbearing function. Then, in vitro fertilization, which resulted in the receipt of 4 embryos. After that, two embryos were transferred to the woman's body, and the other two were left to be stored in case the patient in future wants to have children.

Caesarean section of a woman( 28-year-old resident of the Moscow region) was held on August 25. The surgical procedure itself lasted 19 minutes, the woman gave birth to a boy of 52 cm in height and weighing 3400 grams. According to the deputy head doctor of Obninsk maternity hospital Vera Plashkevich, the baby's health is normal.

This program aimed at restoring cancer reproductive function was initiated by the medical center, which is headed by Anatoly Tsyba. More recently, there were legislative norms that prevented the restoration of reproductive function and cancer patients. And this was true even for patients who had a terrible diagnosis in their infancy. Before carrying out this scientific research, the doctors of the department had to speak repeatedly on the Health Committee of the State Duma. As a result, the doctors received an exclusive right not only to develop technology aimed at restoring the reproductive function and patients with women's oncology, but also to conduct the procedure itself.

The implementation of similar procedures is also carried out abroad. In particular, transplantation of the genetic material of the ovaries of a patient with oncology was made as early as 2004-2005.in Brussels, similar operations were also conducted in Tel Aviv.

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