This new technique, which has been applied in recent years, is suggested for those young patients who have been violently forced to give up the dream of having a child due to cancer diagnosis. In these cases, the cancer treatment that is administered is mostly aggravating or even destructive for the future function of the ovaries, and is usually required to begin immediately. Therefore the only available means of maintaining fertility is the cryopreservation of ovarian tissue.
The tissue is removed with laparoscopy and the ovary is essentially “peeled” to a thickness of 3 mm, followed by laparoscopic stitching of the wound. When the patient’s cancer adventure is over, the removed pieces are transplanted either to the point from which they were removed or to another part of the body from which they can receive efficient perspiration and blood circulation such as the ovarian fossa or the uperitoneum, etc. The tissue’s life after thawing is limited, but pregnancies which have also been completed, have already been reported during this functional period.
