ABSTRACT
For those children and adolescents at risk of ovarian failure, the options for fertility preservation are quite limited and include ovarian translocation to reduce exposure of the ovaries to radiotherapy34-36 and cryopreservation of ovarian cortical tissue 3740. Gonadotropin suppression has not been demonstrated to be protective41-43. The scope of this chapter prohibits further detailed discussion on these issues. Ovarian cortical tissue cryopreservation has significant ethical and legal implications and remains at present at an experimental stage only. The topic is addressed in full in Chapter 12.
