Concerns over 'menopause delay' procedure
Experts have raised concern over a new medical procedure that claims to allow women to delay the onset of the menopause by over a decade.
Its long-term safety and success remains untested - but some women have already paid at least 拢6,000 for the procedure.
Dr Melanie Davies, who chairs Fertility Preservation UK, told this programme that "healthy women going through surgery that would not otherwise be needed... in the hope of preserving future fertility and hormone replacement".
"We know that fertility can be restored in a proportion of women that have had cancer. But no healthy women have gone through this yet and there is no evidence that graft will last more than 10 years."
Charlotte Hayward reports.
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