Medico-Legal Update - An International Journal
Open Access
  • Year: 2006
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 1

Cancer patients can freeze their eggs as insurance

  • Author:
  • D N Bhardwaj
  • Total Page Count: 1
  • Page Number: 22 to 22

Forensic Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi.

Abstract

Many cancer patients face the prospect of never having children as their treatment can leave them infertile. Previously babies born using frozen eggs have been encountered only in healthy women. However, in Florida (U.S.A.) Rutansky suffering from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma since 1997 was advised not to carry pregnancy. She got her eggs frozen and through surrogacy, got own biological child through IVF.

Keywords

cancer, pregnancy, surrogate, fertility