There’s hope for young cancer patients who need to undergo chemo or radiotherapy to have children in the future. The technology of freezing your ovaries (this is different from freezing your eggs which we have been doing since last year) now exists in the Phil.

With me in the photo is Prof. Claus Yding Andersen from the Univ of Copenhagen, Denmark, one of the gods in the field of Reproductive Medicine, the subspecialty in gynecology that deals with helping infertile and subfertile women have children. He is here in Manila to lecture in our Postgraduate Course in St Lukes BGC on “Ovarian Tissue Cryopreservation”.

If you were young and needed to undergo chemotherapy for whatever cancer, you would risk losing your ovarian function and jeopardize future fertility  . With modern technology in St Lukes BGC, prior to your chemo, you can remove some ovarian tissue, cryopreserve it and have it re-implanted once declared disease-free.

The possibilities are endless. If you were undergoing removal of an ovarian cyst while you are young and still fertile, you could request for removal of a sliver of normal ovarian tissue, for cryopreservation (as a back-up insurance) and opt for re-implantation should you, for some misfortune, end up with some cancer in the future.

The applications don’t need to be morbid.  Aging women who prioritize their career over having babies can also preserve their eggs or their ovaries for future fertility. Alternatively, once in menopause you may also re-implant this normal tissue on your atrophic ovaries or even just on your skin to reverse menopause!! Inch by inch, man is moving one step closer to immortality!