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Developments to protect fertility during chemotherapy

A new study of mice receiving chemotherapy could enable researchers to develop and test fertility-protecting drugs.

Currently women receiving ovary-damaging chemotherapies must take steps to harvest and freeze their reproductive materials to preserve their ability to reproduce.

Research into mice is a very early step in the development of drugs to better protect cancer suffers against damage to their ovaries.

Read more at Tel Aviv University

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