Women of reproductive age who have thyroid cancer should be cautious about receiving radioactive iodine treatment, which affects
their remaining egg supply — their ovarian reserve — and may affect their fertility, new research from Israel finds.
Not exact matches
How viable the
eggs may be
remains to be seen, but the ultimate hope is that they be could be used to produce an infinite, affordable
supply of embryonic stem cells.
Even though the
eggs remain unused throughout childhood, by puberty the
egg supply has dropped to 400,000 — less than 6 percent of what the child started with.