Cancer patients give birth using frozen ovaries in Japan's first

Not cancer patients, cancer survivors.

Why shouldn't cancer survivors be allowed to have children?

Great news, and a fine use of the technology.

Congratulation to all involved, Hope for many women who under go chemotherapy or radiation treatments but yet they want to have kids later in life.

@Rodney:

Cancer survivors have good chances of being fully recovered and are more followed than average people in case of relapse. They also tend to be more resilient and fully enjoy life.

If you want prospective parents to have a licence, you should consider first all these pachinko addicts who leave their kids in the car/home alone or those young women having several kids from different men.

Personally, I would rather have a short-lived but resilient caring mum rather than a long-lived pachinko idiot but to each their own...

Looks like a nice way to solve the problem, and this can help convincing patients not to delay their treatments.

I think the explanation is wrong - either slices of ovaries that werekept frozen were reattached to the organ after the therapy (meaning they left a portion of the ovary intact in the abdomen), or entire ovaries were frozen an re-implanted? Also, how did they make sure that the egg released during the cycle came from the tissues that was preserved, and not from the tissue (ovary) that got damaged through chemotheray?

Either way - congratulations to all involved - this is extraordinary success!

So more than just the surgery, hormones and IVF needed.

Great news, but mothers with cancer bringing up children?

Good question..

Great news, but mothers with cancer bringing up children?