Some pretty amazing news from the world of transplants:

Woman infertile after chemotherapy, becomes world's first ovarian transplant recipient to give birth
A 32-year-old woman, who was infertile after she
underwent chemotherapy due to Hodgkin’s lymphoma
in 1997, has become the world’s first ovarian transplant
recipient to give birth to a baby.
Ouarda Touirat gave birth on September 23 to a
healthy 8-pound, 3 ounce baby, Tamara, at Cliniques
Universitaires Saint-Luc hospital in Brussels, Belgium.
Professor Jacques Donnez, head of the Department
of Gynecology and Andrology at the hospital, removed
the ovarian tissue from Touirat before she underwent
the chemotherapy and froze it in liquid nitrogen. Five
years after she was free of cancer, the tissue was grafted
onto her fallopian tubes. Five months later her menstrual
cycle was restored and in January 2004 she conceived
naturally with her husband, a fellow Algerian, Malike,
according to press reports.
"This is the first time that the tissue was cryopreserved,
removed before chemotherapy and was
successfully implanted, Donnez said. "It is a big
message of hope for all women with cancer who have
to go and have chemotherapy."
Donnez said 146 women were undergoing the
procedure but Touirat was one of the first in 1997 who
underwent cryopreservation.
In addition to providing cancer patients with hope
of giving birth, physicians said the ground breaking
procedure one day could allow women to delay
motherhood beyond menopause, which could raise
serious ethical issues.
Donnez strongly opposed allowing the delay, saying
"the technique must be reserved for young women
with cancer." He went even farther, saying health
authorities should make it "a medical legal obligation"
to offer women who have to undergo chemotherapy
the option for fertility preservation because "more and
more women [are] surviving cancer."

--From the September 30, 2004 issue of Transplant News.