Thursday, March 17, 2011

Male Cancer Survivors Find Path to Fertility and Are Able to Have Families Following Pioneering Sperm Extraction Surgery


An intricate procedure that finds and carefully removes individual sperm from testicular tissue has made fathers of men who were once considered sterile due to prior cancer treatment, say researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center who pioneered the technique.
Journal of Clinical Oncology
—NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center

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