It’s good news for women who are diagnosed with certain cancers — their medical conditions don’t have to lead to infertility.

Many times, depending upon the treatments available to tackle cancer (including chemotherapy and radiation), women can become partially or entirely infertile.  Though their cancer may be gone, they are left with a difficult realization that naturally conceiving and giving birth may be difficult or impossible.

Now, though, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has released positive news about revolutionary new ways oncofertility specialists are preserving fertility (or fertility options) for women and girls (even those who are pre-pubescent) who must undergo cancer treatments.

As reported by the ACOG, Teresa K. Woodruff, Ph.D., Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, recently lectured that there is…:

“A promising new technique for preserving ovarian tissue [that] has the potential to safeguard the future fertility even of very young girls…”

This is a heartening suggestion, especially for women who potentially want to have children who are given a cancer diagnosis.