What are the risks of transplanting frozen ovarian tissue back into the patient?
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Ralph Kazer, M.D.
Professor, Ob/Gyn
Oncofertility Consortium
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
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With respect to the option of transplanting frozen ovarian tissue back into the patient from whom the tissue came in certain circumstances, in cases where the patient has certain types of cancer, it is considered unwise to do this because of the concern that microscopic focuses of the cancer may be present in the tissue and may in essence re-seed the patient’s body with the cancer of which they’ve been cured.
Two types of cancers which are of particular concern when the issue of reintroducing the cancer arise are cancers that the patient had involves her blood cell system or cancers that involve the ovary itself.