Baby born from frozen ovary

In a world first, a woman has given birth to a healthy baby using ovarian tissue which had been removed when she was a child.

At the age of 13 she needed chemotherapy, which can cause infertility, so doctors in Belgium froze one of her ovaries.

Years later her fertility was restored when the tissue was re-implanted.

The BBC's medical correspondent, Fergus Walsh reports.

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