Cancer survivor, 26, undergoes first-ever ovary operation by a ROBOT to implant her ovarian tissue which was frozen 11 years ago

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Ovarian tissue frozen 11 years ago has been transplanted back into the womb of a 26-year-old cancer survivor using a robot.

The woman was 15 when she decided to have her eggs removed so she could have a chance of starting a family despite undergoing fertility-crushing chemotherapy to cure her recurrent leukemia.

Her tissue was removed by Dr Kutluk Oktay, the pioneering NYU Winthrop embryologist who invented the precise freezing procedure in 1999.  

Now newly-married, the patient – who wishes to remain unidentified until she conceives – has returned to Dr Otkay’s clinic to have her tissue thawed and re-implanted so she can start a family. 

‘This procedure is literally life-changing. I now have the chance to have my own children,’ she said, days after the operation which was the first of its kind performed on Long Island, the first of its kind performed on an outpatient, and the first using a Da Vinci robotic surgeon.

Dr Oktay told Daily Mail Online everything looked good in a follow-up five days later, and he expects she will be able to try for a baby within three to six months.

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