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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.

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