A two-year-old Brooklyn girl is about to become the youngest patient ever to undergo an experimental procedure to preserve her fertility after chemotherapy.
The "New York Post" reports Violet Lee is scheduled to start chemotherapy Wednesday so she can get a bone marrow transplant to treat a serious immune disease.
But chemotherapy and radiation treatments often leave patients sterile, so on Tuesday the toddler will have one of her ovaries removed by fertility preservation pioneer Dr. Kutluk Oktay.
The ovary will be kept on ice until little Violet is all grown up and ready to have children.
Then, the ovary will be re-implanted, hopefully allowing her to have children.
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