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# Ovarian Tissue Transplants Help Women Have Children After Cancer, Study Shows

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## Video: Angelina Jolie Had Her Ovaries Removed Due To Cancer Risk

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_Published 2015-03-24. Angelina Jolie opens up about having her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed in an essay in The New York Times._


by 

[Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/)


## Alexandra Sifferlin


Oct 7, 2015 6:13 PM UTC

by 

[Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/)


## Alexandra Sifferlin


Oct 7, 2015 6:13 PM UTC

An experimental procedure in which women who survive cancer receive transplants of their own ovarian tissue has helped some women have babies, a [new study](http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/10/03/humrep.dev230.full) shows. The study is the largest to be done on this procedure so far.

The Denmark study, published in the journal _Human Reproduction_, focused on women who had one ovary removed and frozen when they found out that they had cancer. After receiving treatment and recovering from cancer, doctors transplanted the preserved ovarian tissue onto the women’s remaining ovary, [the Associated Press reports](http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/bbd825583c8542898e6fa7d440b9febc/Article%5F2015-10-06-EU-MED--Ovary%20Transplants/id-39fb1303dac0408db1ac1a6bc40e5125).

The study looked at 41 women with cancer who had the procedure between 2003 and 2014\. The results showed that among the 32 women who wanted to get pregnant, 10 did conceive and gave birth. The findings suggest the procedure could help 1 in 3 women successfully have a baby.

According to the AP, over 36 babies have been born after ovarian transplants including 14 in Denmark.

“Freezing ovarian tissue is now gaining ground as a valid method for fertility restoration and for providing ovarian activity with cycling levels of sex hormones for several years,” the study authors conclude. “The level of safety appears to be high, with no relapse due to transplantation of ovarian tissue recorded to date.”

**Read more:**[_Exclusive: Meet the World’s First Baby Born With an Assist from Stem Cells_](http://time.com/3849127/baby-stem-cells-augment-ivf/)


## Transcript

Actress Angelina Jolie is taking even more preventative measures against developing certain types of cancer she has a family history of. The 39 year old revealed in a New York Times essay she's had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed. This after she underwent a preventive mastectomy in 2013. Two years ago, the star revealed she carries a gene mutation called BRCA1. Which put her at an 87 % risk of breast cancer and a 50 % risk of ovarian cancer, according to her doctor's estimates. In her newest essay, Jolie revealed she was planning to have the surgery to remove her ovaries and Fallopian tubes for a while now.

But had to wrap her brain around the consequences. It is a less complex surgery than the mastectomy, but its effects are more severe. It puts a woman into forced menopause. So I was readying myself physically and emotionally, discussing options with doctors, researching alternative medicine, and mapping my hormones for estrogen or progesterone replacement, Jolie wrote. She planned to put the surgery off for even longer, until a yearly cancer screening test came back showing some inflammatory markers, a potential sign of ovarian cancer. Jolie's mother died from that same type of cancer in 2007.

Jolie's candidness about both preventative surgeries has had quite the impact on women getting cancer screenings. In 2014 the BBC reported a study discovered the number of referrals to breast cancer clinics to get genetic testing completed, more than doubled from the previous year. The researches attributed the increase to what call the Angelina Jolie effect.

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