A study recently published in the Human Reproduction Magazine points to a possible treatment that could preserve fertility of children treated for cancer.
The work, led by Professor Ralph Brinster and the team of the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has developed research with animals that have concluded that spermatogonial stem cells, which are present from birth, can be preserved for more than fourteen years and be successfully reimplanted, allowing men who have lost fertility to recover it in adulthood and produce viable sperm.
Many children receiving cancer treatments they lose reproductive capacity and, when it is not possible, due to their age, to get sperm to keep frozen before treatment, they will not be able to produce sperm in adulthood.
However, it is now pointed out that they might hope to recover Fertility lost by cancer treatment, if this method of freezing the spermatogonial stem cells and subsequent implantation, which has been performed successfully in animals, would be carried out in humans.
Via | Human Reproduction In Babies and more | Breast milk contains protectors against cancer, Manifesto for the International Day of Children with Cancer: "What prevents you from knowing me?"
