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Freezing Part of a Woman’s Ovaries Could Delay Menopause for Years 婦女冷凍部份卵巢，有望延緩更年期

精英翻譯社轉自https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1314987

◎劉宜庭

A medical procedure that has been used to freeze a woman’s ovaries is being offered for the first time as a way to delay menopause.

婦女冷凍卵巢的一項醫療程序，首次被用作延緩更年期的方式之一。

This procedure, called "ovarian tissue cryopreservation,"isn’t something new. It was developed back in the late 90s and is commonly performed to preserve the ovaries of girls and young women undergoing tissue-damaging cancer treatment. Doctors take out parts of the ovaries and freeze them before such patients undergo chemotherapy and radiation treatment. In the future, if these patients want to have children, doctors reimplant the ovarian tissue in the body.

這項「卵巢組織冷凍保存」療程並非首創。其發展可追溯至1990年代晚期，該療程普遍用於保存正在接受「組織破壞性」癌症治療的少女及年輕女性的卵巢。醫師在這些病患接受化療和放射治療前，取出部分卵巢並冷凍。將來她們若想懷胎生子，醫師就會將冷凍保存的卵巢組織再植入她們體內。

But now, the U.K.-based company, ProFam, is offering the same procedure for women up to the age of 40 who just want to delay menopause─the time when levels of reproductive hormones fall, and a woman stops getting her menstrual period.

而現在，英國ProFam公司正在為想要延緩更年期的40歲以下婦女提供相同療程；40歲正值生殖荷爾蒙下降、婦女停經的時期。