A huge advancement in science brings hope for women around the world. A 34-year-old British woman became the first in the country to receive a womb transplant. Veuer’s Maria Mercedes Galuppo has the story.
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00:00A huge advancement in science brings hope for women around the world.
00:05Reuters reports a 34-year-old British woman became the first in the country to receive a womb transplant.
00:11The woman received the organ from her 40-year-old sister after she lost her womb to cancer.
00:17Since getting diagnosed with cancer and a hysterectomy, the infertility was such a huge part of that and you grieve, you really do.
00:26The procedure offers hope for prospective recipients in their hope to bear children.
00:31So she's doing really, really well. She has started having menstrual periods and that means her prospects of having a baby are very high.
00:39She needs to stay on immunosuppressive therapy and to be closely monitored and we hope to be doing an embryo transfer in the autumn.