Preserving a six-year-old's ovary for her future fertility


Assoc Prof Faizal (centre) and his team who carried out the OTC procedure. — Handout

In a first, a Malaysian medical team has successfully completed a pre-pubertal ovarian tissue cryopreservation (OTC) to preserve the fertility of a courageous six-year-old Russian cancer patient.

The procedure was carried out recently under the guidance of Hospital Canselor Tuanku Mukhriz UKM consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist Associate Professor Dr Mohd Faizal Ahmad.

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