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Belgian day-old baby Tamara Bouanati nestles in the arms of her mother Ouarda Touirat, 32. Touirat beat cancer and gave birth after an ovarian tissue transplant.A Belgian woman has given birth to the first baby born after an ovarian tissue transplant, a medical advance that gives hope to young cancer patients whose fertility may be damaged by chemotherapy.

The baby, a healthy girl named Tamara, was born at 7:05 p.m. on Thursday in a hospital in Brussels and weighed 8.2 lb. Her mother is Ouarda Touirat, 32, a hospital spokeswoman said.

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47-YEAR-OLD Melbourne woman has had radical surgery that may make her a first-time mother - and part of medical historyA 47-YEAR-OLD Melbourne woman has had radical surgery that may make her a first-time mother - and part of medical history.

Eight years after having "slices" of her ovaries removed, frozen and stored, Lisa had them reimplanted last month in the hope of becoming pregnant.

Specialists at Monash IVF hope the slices will regenerate in her reproductive system - and effectively reverse menopause by starting a process that will release eggs and make her fertile again.

If it works, Lisa could become the first woman in Australia to become pregnant using the technique.

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An infertile Belgian woman has successfully received ovarian tissue from her sister in a procedure that could offer hope to women with early menopause or fertility problems after having medical treatment for cancer. The method could be used to help women unsuited to normal IVF treatment, scientists said.

The breakthrough came after doctors in Belgium carried out the first successful ovarian tissue transplant between two non-identical sisters.

Teresa Alvaro, 37, whose ovaries failed after treatment for cancer when she was 20, now has restored ovarian function as a result of the transplant operation from younger sister, Sandra.

Jacques Donnez, a professor of gynaecology at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels, said it was too early to draw firm conclusions but the procedure gave hope to women who had not had an opportunity to freeze either eggs or ovarian tissue before undergoing damaging cancer therapy.

The treatment could be used between two unrelated women, as long as they had compatible tissue types and had swapped bone marrow, he said.

Teresa Alvaro decided to seek an ovarian tissue transplant after reading in 2005 about a 24-year-old American woman who gave birth to a healthy baby after receiving a similar tissue donation from her twin sister.

The Belgian operation, reported in the journal Human Reproduction, is the first be carried out on two non-identical sisters. After the procedure, Teresa Alvaro produced eggs which were fertilised by her husband's sperm. Although the embryos did not develop properly, she is hopeful she will become pregnant in the future. "I feel this is what I needed to do and I will have children one day," she said.

In February 2006, the sisters underwent the operation to transfer the ovarian tissue. Sections of tissue were removed from Sandra through laparoscopy and, in under a minute, were being sewn on to one of Teresa's ovaries, also via laparoscopy.

The sisters were discharged from hospital the following day.

Teresa started menstruating six months later and tests on her hormone levels confirmed that her ovaries were functioning normally.

Source: http://society.guardian.co.uk/health/news/0,,2139913,00.html
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