MU researchers receive grant to improve fertility in female cancer survivors

Friday, October 12, 2007 | 11:49 a.m. CDT; updated 12:08 a.m. CDT, Monday, July 21, 2008

COLUMBIA — Before Michelle Baetiong began chemotherapy for abdominal cancer in 2006, she decided to have eggs from her ovary frozen, knowing there was only a 6 percent chance that the two harvested eggs would ever result in a successful pregnancy.

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