Keeping your ovaries during hysterectomy
The prognosis for cervical cancer has greatly improved over the years. However, it comes with a heavy price - the loss of the uterus via hysterectomy.
Hysterectomy is a surgical procedure of removing uterus of a woman as a consequence of cancer. About 600,000 hysterectomies are performed in the US each year. With hysterectomy comes the consequence that a woman can longer bear an offspring in her body for nine months. However, with the recent developments in reproduction medicine, a woman without a uterus can still have a “genetic offspring” from her own eggs which can be fertilized in vitro and borne by a surrogate mother.


Raquel Billiones has a PhD in Biology and has over 15 years experience as a researcher, scientific English teacher, and medical writer. Since 2006, she has been a freelance WAHM specializing in medical writing and scientific documentation. 































