In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)
experts in Britain have developed a surgical procedure that could postpone the
onset of menopause for up to 20 years.
The procedure advances by
removing a small piece of the patients’ ovarian tissue which is then sliced up
and frozen for the purpose of preservation and later implantation.
On reaching the ideal age for
menopause, the frozen tissue is thawed out and grafted back into the body,
thereby restoring the woman’s declining sex hormones; halting menopause; and
also putting off adverse health conditions.
The surgery is now being offered
to women who are up to the age of 40 by ProFam, a Birmingham-based company, at
a cost ranging between £7,000 and £11,000.
Simon Fishel, the founder of
ProFam and president of the UK Care Fertility Group, said the surgery is
capable of putting off anxiety, insomnia, reduced sex drive, and other health
conditions that presage the reproductive stage.
“This has the potential to be of
significant benefit to any woman who may want to delay the menopause for any
reason, or those women who would have taken HRT, and there are lots of benefits
around that,” Fishel to The Guardian.
While similar procedures have
been adopted with cancer patients, the specialists said it would benefit women
who experience adverse heart conditions, bone-weakening osteoporosis, and other
serious menopause-triggered conditions.
According to them, a total of
nine women have so far undergone the procedure and would have their tissues
replaced in the coming decades, provided the tissues survive the process.
The length of time for which the
procedure would put off menopause, the specialists stated, would depend on the
age at which the surgery was performed but that could last up to 20 years for
women of age 25.
“This is the first project in the
world to provide healthy women ovarian tissue cryopreservation purely to delay
the menopause,” Yousri Afifin, ProFam’s chief medical officer, told The Sunday
Times.
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