First Asian baby born naturally from ovarian tissue transplantation

Singapore's Today newspaper on July 7 reported that a girl formed from ovarian tissue transplantation was born at the National University Hospital of Singapore (NUH) in May 2015.

Babies are born naturally from ovarian tissue implants

This is the first case in Asia and one of 21 cases in the world to be born naturally by ovarian tissue transplantation.

Siti Nurjannah and her newborn daughter.(Source: The Straits Times)

Her mother, Siti Nurjannah, was diagnosed with rare soft tissue cancer in the thigh in 2009, when she was 26 years old.

Treatment with chemotherapy will lead to the risk that this woman cannot have children. So the doctors at NUH had a laparoscopic surgery, collected and preserved part of her ovarian tissue before chemotherapy and re-implanted it four years later, when she treated cancer in the year. two thousand and thirteen.

Dr. Anupriya Agarwal of NUH said that this success will open opportunities and encourage women not to abandon their motherhood when faced with disease.