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Four little miracles

(JNS) — Seven months ago, following years of aggressive cancer treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma, Ayelet Rosenberg, 35, gave birth to her fourth child, Yishai, making history as the first woman in the world to give birth to four children through cryopreservation of her eggs.

The successful treatment was made possible by the innovative work of the Fertility Preservation Center at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan.

The experimental method performed by Prof. Dror Meirow, head of the center, involved removing fetal eggs from Rosenberg’s ovaries, cryopreserving them, and then transferring them to her...

 

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