A new but expensive method to delay menopause

Removing a woman's ovarian tissue when she is younger and reimplanting it when menopause hits, can help relieve menopausal symptoms for years. — AFP

British doctors are proposing a method to delay menopause and its unpleasant side effects by removing and freezing ovarian tissue, then grafting it back into the body when needed.

Dr Simon Fishel, IVF (in-vitro fertilisation) specialist and founder of the ProFam company in Birmingham, has developed a procedure in which a small amount of ovarian tissue is removed via keyhole surgery from a woman aged 40 or under, and then frozen.